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Sister Mary Ignatius, a teaching nun who is much
concerned with sin in all of its various forms, delivers a cautionary
lecture to her charges. One of them, a precocious little boy named
Thomas, can quote the Ten Commandments on cue, and each time he does so
Sister Mary rewards him with a cookie. But when several of her former
students turn up the picture darkens, along with Sister Mary's
indignation. One of them is the happy mother of an illegitimate child;
another a contented homosexual; still another has had two abortions—the
first after having been raped on the night of her mother's death; while
another student, now an alcoholic, contemplates suicide. Their stories
are disturbing—but also very funny—and it is quickly apparent that one
thing they all have in common is their loathing for Sister Mary and the
unyielding dogma which she forced on them in their formative years. In
the end there is mayhem and bloodshed but, with this, the unsettling
feeling that, amid the laughter, some devastating truths have been told. |
