- Crippled as a young girl, Sabine vows to become a nun if cured. But when it turns out the original diagnosis was faulty and she regains the use of her legs, she decides to marry instead. Wreaked with guild when her first child is stillborn, Sabine enters a monastery where her sister Gertrude also resides. But after her sister dies of an illness, Sabine leaves the nuns behind and travels to India seeking peace.—Il Tesoro
- The devout, well-off Catholic family Arnaud lives on estate Trois Fontaines, where a fall from a tree cripples airhead daughter Sabine, apparently for life, but US family friend doctor Finch finds the polio misdiagnosis absurd and prescribes basic treatment which gets her out of a wheelchair as an adult. While her brothers leave for careers, Niki a priest and Simon a soldier, she marries burly Joris and is shortly happy with him, but since their daughter is stillborn she blames every misfortune in the family on her withdrawn promise to enter a nunnery, also when Simon falls on the battle field. Joris's death is the last straw, so she becomes an atypically mature novice, deemed arrogant by the mistress, found without unconditional vocation by mother superior. When her younger kin Gertrude, who joined the convent young, succumbs to neglected pneumonia and looses faith on her deathbed, Sabine leaves, refuses to return home -rather empty anyhow- and visits a friend in colonial India, finally realizing in Benares her whole, ever-failing life was based on devout illusions.—KGF Vissers
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