DOUBT: A PARABLE by John Patrick Shanley

In 1964, Sister Aloysius, the disciplined principal of a Catholic grade school in the Bronx suspects Father Flynn, a younger, informal parish priest of “seducing” one of the students. She sets out to expose him despite only having circumstantial evidence to support her intuition. Flynn’s vehement denial pitted against the sister’s unshakeable conviction envelops the idealistic Sister James and Mrs. Muller, mother of the alleged victim, in the crossfire of a monumental clash of wills.