Synopsis
Set at a Catholic school in the
Bronx in 1964, Doubt concerns an older nun, Sister Aloysius, who does
not approve of teachers' offering friendship and compassion over the
discipline she feels students need in order to face the harsh world.
When she suspects a new priest of sexually abusing a student, she is
faced with the prospect of charging him with unproven allegations and
possibly destroying his career as well as her own. To help build her
case, she asks for help from an idealistic young nun, who finds her
faith in compassion challenged, and the mother of the accused boy, who
is protective of her son, the first black student ever admitted to St.
Nicholas.
