**WARNING:** This film contains mature content & nudity. Based on a true story, a 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedetta's shocking religious visions that threaten to shake the Church to its core.

Elodie and Laetitia are deeply in love when they decide to have a child through assisted reproduction. When Elodie discovers that she cannot have children and that financial problems interfere with their project, they decide to take a roommate.

Plunging the viewer - and the main character - into a true lion's den, Jacqueline Audry depicts a 19th-century boarding school for young girls, one divided into two camps where all the shots, even the most underhanded, are allowed. That's because the two mistresses of the house, Miss Julie and Miss Cara, are engaged in a turf war as well as a war of the heart. Competing for the affections of their students, they route passion, hatred, and unexpected...

When Marie, a gifted pianist, moves to Lyons and is seduced by her roommate Emma, she comes in danger of losing herself completely to Emma's sadistic, controlling influence.