A former reporter, now a nun, Sister Margaret is struck on the back of the head in the seminary reading room. While she is unconscious, a beloved professor is killed in the same room. Her former boyfriend, the police detective assigned to the investigation is shocked to find that Sister Margaret is also Meg, his first love. With a killer loosed on the seminary, he requires the sister to explain how the seminary works. While he questions suspects and searches for motive with her help, his love for her rekindles.
Meanwhile, the killer stalks Sister Margaret, who cannot abandon the campus because finals and graduation are so close. What her detective does not know, is that she is leaving the order at graduation, freed from all her vows, especially the vow of celibacy.
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