December, in Turin-icy, fog-bound, miserable. At a lonely tram-stop, two people wait, each aware of the other, yet afraid to speak- a sad, cynical forty-year-old accountant, and a young nun. What happens when, at last, the barrier of silence is broken, when man meets woman across a seemingly impassable gulf of religion, ethics, and social tradition is the exquisitely told story of 'The Novice'.
