The Nun's Story

Sister Pauline will return to the Congo. 415 00:55:20,907 --> 00:55:23,274 Sisters Timothy and Ellen... 416 00:55:23,744 --> 00:55:25,736 will go to the Congo, too. 417 00:55:26,546 --> 00:55:28,981 Sister Luke will leave tomorrow morning... 418 00:55:29,082 --> 00:55:33,042 to join the nursing staff of our mental sanatorium near Brussels. 419 00:55:44,765 --> 00:55:48,429 Perhaps Reverend Mother feels you are not yet ready for the Congo. 420 00:55:49,136 --> 00:55:52,334 You must learn to accept with love whatever comes to you. 421 00:55:52,439 --> 00:55:54,840 It is essential in religious life. 422 00:55:55,509 --> 00:55:57,978 You passed fourth in a class of 80. 423 00:56:44,391 --> 00:56:47,418 Everything they do is to be accepted as normal. 424 00:56:49,796 --> 00:56:52,163 Sister Agnes, Sister Luke. 425 00:56:52,866 --> 00:56:55,233 Good morning, Mother Christoph. 426 00:56:59,473 --> 00:57:01,999 Our practical nurses stand a four-hour shift. 427 00:57:02,476 --> 00:57:06,538 Our sisters take unlimited duty, sometimes from eight to 10 hours. 428 00:57:14,020 --> 00:57:17,286 These are the cells for our most dangerous patients. 429 00:57:22,796 --> 00:57:25,265 We try to approach even our most dangerous cases... 430 00:57:25,365 --> 00:57:27,960 with gentle and persuasive reasoning. 431 00:57:32,305 --> 00:57:36,606 Sister Berthold, this is Sister Luke, who is to be with us for a while. 432 00:57:36,777 --> 00:57:38,678 - Sister Berthold. - Sister Luke. 433 00:57:42,415 --> 00:57:44,941 This one thinks that she is the Archangel Gabriel. 434 00:57:45,051 --> 00:57:46,781 So we call her that. 435 00:57:48,955 --> 00:57:50,947 Good afternoon, Archangel. 436 00:58:01,568 --> 00:58:04,094 She's a schizophrenic and very dangerous. 437 00:58:04,204 --> 00:58:08,733 She has perfectly sane periods when she talks intelligently about her farm. 438 00:58:09,242 --> 00:58:12,406 A sister is forbidden to open the door of any of these cells... 439 00:58:12,512 --> 00:58:16,381 unless there is another sister with her. Or a practical helper. 440 00:58:17,050 --> 00:58:20,543 One ought to be able to get through to someone like her. 441 00:58:23,190 --> 00:58:26,126 - Hello. - Hello, Archangel. 442 00:58:28,328 --> 00:58:31,958 This is the room where we give the treatment for the violent cases. 443 00:58:32,566 --> 00:58:35,297 We keep them four to eight hours in baths... 444 00:58:35,402 --> 00:58:37,633 maintained at a constant temperature. 445 00:58:40,340 --> 00:58:43,003 The sound that you hear are their heels... 446 00:58:43,376 --> 00:58:45,607 beating up and down against the tubs. 447 00:58:45,912 --> 00:58:47,312 Sister Marie is on duty. 448 00:58:47,414 --> 00:58:50,782 She generally remains there from eight to 10 hours at a time. 449 00:59:11,805 --> 00:59:13,171 Sister Luke. 450 01:00:21,608 --> 01:00:23,600 It isn't one of my pleasantest duties... 451 01:00:23,743 --> 01:00:26,508 opening and reading other people's letters, but... 452 01:00:26,780 --> 01:00:29,443 sometimes it does allow me to help them. 453 01:00:29,950 --> 01:00:32,943 As you see, your father asks an angry question. 454 01:00:33,687 --> 01:00:36,816 Why should you waste all these months of your time here... 455 01:00:36,957 --> 01:00:40,121 after your strenuous courses in tropical medicine? 456 01:00:40,527 --> 01:00:42,758 I must apologize for my father. 457 01:00:43,830 --> 01:00:46,026 Your father's a very great man. 458 01:00:46,166 --> 01:00:47,964 But I don't think he understands... 459 01:00:48,101 --> 01:00:52,368 that the colonies are only for sisters perfected in the religious life. 460 01:00:53,440 --> 01:00:56,706 He asks what you could possibly learn in this place. 461 01:00:57,010 --> 01:01:01,175 When I'm permitted to write to him I will tell him what I can learn here: 462 01:01:01,314 --> 01:01:02,577 obedience. 463 01:01:05,518 --> 01:01:08,545 Perhaps that's what Mother Emmanuel had in mind. 464 01:01:09,089 --> 01:01:12,025 That this would make an excellent proving ground. 465 01:01:12,158 --> 01:01:13,524 I shall try. 466 01:01:14,427 --> 01:01:16,362 And I shall try with you... 467 01:01:16,663 --> 01:01:19,724 since your soul is in my care while you are here. 468 01:01:19,866 --> 01:01:21,892 Thank you, Reverend Mother. 469 01:02:25,065 --> 01:02:28,467 - Yes? - I am so thirsty. 470 01:02:29,803 --> 01:02:32,272 May I have a drink of water, please? 471 01:02:35,675 --> 01:02:37,268 A terrible thirst. 472 01:02:38,078 --> 01:02:39,910 The fish was so salty. 473 01:03:56,289 --> 01:03:57,518 Oh, God. 474 01:03:59,792 --> 01:04:01,021 God. 475 01:04:29,789 --> 01:04:30,722 Oh, God. 476 01:04:56,950 --> 01:04:58,384 The Archangel. 477 01:05:05,391 --> 01:05:08,327 Pride. Pride and disobedience. 478 01:05:10,430 --> 01:05:11,898 Always disobedience. 479 01:05:12,031 --> 01:05:15,798 Don't try to talk. I would probably have done the same thing. 480 01:05:18,438 --> 01:05:23,138 I accuse myself also of pride in thinking I co