Awards: Academy Award Nominations for Best Picture Best Actress Hepburn Best Director Best Adapted Screenplay Best Color Cinematography Best Film Editing Best Score and Best Sound New York Film Critics Awards for Best Actress Hepburn and Best Director National Board of Review Awards for Best Picture Best Director and Best Supporting Actress Evans
Audrey Hepburn portrays a nun whose life journey takes her from the staff of a mental asylum to a surgical nurse in the Belgian Congo. She returns to Belgium as WWII breaks out and is torn between the needs of the Resistance and the church's neutrality.