![Sidney Poitier](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w92/vkbV4UC1kKcpGPv2HXlFL5evmm1.jpg)
An unemployed construction worker (Homer Smith) heading out west stops at a remote farm in the desert to get water when his car overheats. The farm is being worked by a group of East European Catholic nuns, headed by the strict mother superior (Mother Maria), who believes that Homer has been sent by God to build a much needed church in the desert...