Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play John Patrick Shanley brings his play Doubt to the screen in a story about the quest for truth the forces of change & the devastating consequences of blind justice in an age defined by moral conviction It&s 1964 St Nicholas in the Bronx A vibrant charismatic priest Father Flyn is trying to upend the school&s strict customs which have long been fiercley guarded by Sister Aloysius Beauvier the iron-gloved Principal who believes in the power of fear & discipline The winds of political change are sweeping through the community & indeed the school has just accepted its first black student Donald Miller But when Sister James a hopeful innocent shares with Sister Aloysius her guilt-inducing suspicion that Father Flynn is paying too much personal attention to Donald Sister Aloysius is galvanised to begin a crusade to both unearth the truth & expunge Flynn from the scgool Now without a shred of proof or evidence except her moral certainty Sister Aloysius locks into a battle of wills with Father Flynn a battle that threatens to tear apart the church & school with devastating consequences