- The struggles of nuns and students at a Roman Catholic convent school in 1960s Sydney.
- Diane, a young woman growing up in Australia in the mid 1960s, walks away from her fiancé to join a convent after being sure she has a calling to the faith. The Catholic Church and its followers are struggling with huge changes. The Pope has died, there is war in Vietnam and mandatory conscription, there is the Vatican controversy on abortion and contraception, and the changing face of the Church as a whole. Told in six parts, Diane faces her own demons and has to finally decide if she can teach what the Church preaches, or if it's simply impossible for her to reconcile all the contradictions of the faith and uphold her vow of obedience.—Jane Phillips
- Set in the 1960s, Brides of Christ tells the story of a group of nuns in a fictitious inner city convent school in Sydney during a time of radical upheaval in society and in the Catholic Church. In the era of Vietnam and the Rolling Stones, established disciplines and rites are questioned in a collision between an ancient institution and the modern world. The series shows nuns as highly spirited questioning women, with sexual feelings and very human failings.
- Diane Markham (Josephine Byrnes) joins a convent, Santo Spirito School for Girls after dropping her fiancé and becomes Sister Catherine, under the guidance of Sister Agnes (Brenda Fricker). Catherine begins a friendship with another convent newcomer Sister Paul (Lisa Hensley) and she begins to teach English and acts as the school newspaper adviser. Rosemary Fitzgerald (Kym Wilson) is a naughty, rebellious student who gets herself into trouble, while another student Frances Heffernan (Naomi Watts) is upset because her divorced mother is planning a wedding. Catherine and Paul help Frances overcome her depression. Another convent novitiate falls in love with an ultra-liberal priest (Simon Burke) while the real-life of the Vietnam war, rock 'n' roll, free abortions and free love flood the news.
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