Five English nuns are dispatched to establish a new convent far in the Himalayas. They soon establish a school and an infirmary, but the location, the culture and the mountain air begin to have a strange effect on them. A nun begins to plant flowers instead of vegetables. Another one cures a kid of the village, who dies, and so all the locals abandon the hospital. The beautiful Indian girls who lives in the convent escapes with a young king. Sister Ruth, obsessed with Mr. Dean, starts wearing normal clothes and courting him. She also tries to kill the Sister Superior and tries to push her down the balcony, but in the fight, she will be the one falling down. After this tragedy, the Sisters decide to abandon the convent.