An unemployed construction worker (Homer Smith) heading out west stops at a remote farm in the desert to get water when his car overheats. The farm is being worked by a group of East European Catholic nuns, headed by the strict mother superior (Mother Maria), who believes that Homer has been sent by God to build a much needed church in the desert...
Sidney Poitier | Homer Smith | |
Lilia Skala | Mother Maria | |
Stanley Adams | Juan | |
Francesca Jarvis | Sister Albertine | |
Pamela Branch | Sister Elizabeth | |
Dan Frazer | Father Murphy |
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