This deeply nostalgic story charts the rites of passage and changing fortunes of three convent school friends, their lives forever influenced by the confines of their Catholicism. Clare -- clever, privileged, and a conformist. -- marries well and looks forward to a happy and successful life. Pippa is an artistic dreamer, devout yet unconventional, who wants to do her own thing in an increasingly tolerant age. Eleanor, the skeptic, abandons her religion. More ambitious than the others, she becomes a media star. Like her two close friends, she wants happiness -- but will any of them find it?