Inés de Villalonga 1870

Spain, 1949. Narcisa, a novice, arrives at an old convent, converted into a girls' school, to work as a teacher.

Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but the two have met only once. Jaime thinks Viridiana resembles his dead wife. Viridiana has secretly despised this man all her life and finds her worst fears proven when Jaime grows determined to seduce his pure niece. Viridiana becomes undone as her uncle upends the plans she had made to join the convent.

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On the surface the women at the convent are your average nuns. However, what they get up to in their spare time is far from what you'd expect from nuns.

A convent girl is abducted and seduced by a prince before being sent off to a brothel in East Africa.

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