An unemployed construction worker 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, who believes the man has been sent by God to build a much needed church in the desert.

Sidney Poitier
as Homer Smith

Lilia Skala
as Mother Maria

Lisa Mann
as Sister Gertrude

Isa Crino
as Sister Agnes

Francesca Jarvis
as Sister Albertine

Pamela Branch
as Sister Elizabeth

Stanley Adams
as Juan Acolito

Dan Frazer
as Father Murphy

Bobby Driscoll
as Mexican Holding Chapel Door (uncredited)

Ralph Nelson
as Mr. Ashton (uncredited)
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This is one of my favourite performances from Sidney Poitier. Normally his characterisations were settled in an environment of racist and/or bigoted undertones. This drama actually has a much lighter, more comedic, touch to it. He is "Homer" a travelling factotum who happens upon five German nuns wh...