In France, the Female parent Superior of a convent, and the convent'due south gardener, Pierre Cabeau, work with the French underground to help escaping prisoners of state of war. When an American pilot named John is shot down over France, he is directed by the hush-hush to the convent's chapel. His appearance there startles Sister Clothilde, a novice who dislikes men, simply she informs Female parent Superior of his presence. Considering he is carrying of import data from the French cloak-and-dagger intended for the English government, arrangements are made for John to pose equally the shell-shocked hubby of a local woman, Madame Bouchard, and escape to England using forged papers. Before he tin flee, all the same, Nazi Major Krupp breaches the cloister and enters the convent grounds, frightening Clothilde when he threatens to take several girls for "service" unless John is establish. Clothilde, who has not been outside the convent walls since she was eight years old, unintentionally reveals John's presence to Krupp. Mother Superior later scolds Clothilde for her naivete, and advises the daughter that as nuns, they are not exempt from the suffering of real life. Later, Pierre brings word that Mme. Bouchard has been arrested while John was waiting for her at the bridge. When German language soldiers insist on searching the convent, Female parent Superior refuses to admit them and is accidentally shot when they shoot out the lock on the door. Having understood Mother Superior's previous words to her, Clothilde meets John at the bridge and takes Mme. Bouchard'due south identify, posing as "Louise Dupree." At a windmill operated by the underground, a passport photo is taken of Clothilde, and she and John are given instructions. While pretending that John is Clothilde's mute husband, the ii make their way across the countryside by night, and arrive at an abased farmhouse subsequently narrowly escaping death during an air raid. John is wounded during the attack, however, and Clothilde administers medicine which, forth with nutrient, has been hidden in the farmhouse past the underground. When John awakens in the morning, he finally recognizes Clothilde every bit the novice from the convent. Clothilde admits that she loathes men because of her male parent's adultery, but when John speaks reverently of his married woman and son, she sees the beauty of matrimony. For the rest of their journey, Clothilde, with a new amore for John, ably assists him. Upon reaching the railroad train station, they learn that an air raid has damaged the tracks and the railroad train will non exist running. Clothilde and John then become to a eating house, only when a German language soldier grabs her for some female companionship, John strikes him. Clothilde is recognized by Vitrey, the mayor of her town who has been searching for John, and he takes them hostage. John, however, knocks Vitrey out later wresting his gun from him, and they escape to a safe firm. Madame Sarroux, the landlady, has arranged with Pierre, who is at that place, for Clothilde to work equally a waitress in a boardinghouse, where John volition swallow and so hibernate in a storeroom until he hears the mechanized playing piano. Co-ordinate to the programme, John will and then sideslip through a trapdoor into a waiting boat. Unknown to them, Nazi soldiers have tracked them to Sarroux'southward firm. Clothilde and John escape to the boardinghouse, but Sarroux is unable to withstand the Nazi torture and reveals their destination. Clothilde is captured by Krupp at the boardinghouse, and, in exchange for John's life, makes a bargain with Krupp to bring him the secret document. Krupp lets Clothilde go, trusting her nun's vow that she volition return. John insists that for her ain rubber, Clothilde back-trail him out of the country, but she demurs, and they bid each other a heartfelt farewell. John climbs through the trapdoor to the waiting boat, and Clothilde bravely returns without the papers to face Krupp. Although Clothilde maintains that she kept her promise to render, an aroused Krupp declares that he volition force her to "service" German language officers as punishment. Appalled past this sacrilegious suggestion, Vitrey pulls his gun, and as a Nazi soldier struggles with him, the gun discharges and kills Clothilde.
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