印度加尔各答修道院的克罗塔修女奉调到纳普修道院当院长，该修道院在印度北方海拔8000尺高山上，常年刮着强风。克罗塔建立学校和医院，虽治理得有条有理，但年轻修女们在偏远高山上全凭自律修持，唯美的环境使精神受到挑战。在不断的诱惑下，无法把持者只有放弃圣职。后来，发生了幼儿病死及露丝修女因爱恨还俗并欲杀害院长反坠入深谷等事件，克罗塔也因此离开纳普修道院以抚平心中的伤痕。

It's the off-season at the lonely Beauregard Hotel in Bournemoth, and only the long-term tenants are still in residence. Life at the Beauregard is stirred up, however, when the beautiful Ann Shankland arrives to see her alcoholic ex-husband, John Malcolm, who is secretly engaged to Pat Cooper, the woman who runs the hotel. Meanwhile, snobbish Mrs Railton-Bell discovers that the kindly if rather doddering Major Pollock is not what he appears to be. The news is particularly shocking for her frail daughter, Sibyl, who is secretly in love with the Major.