The wife of a Colombian political police chief who plotted a deadly ambush against her husband with the help of her lover: a revolutionary; a Cuban bishop who collaborated with Fidel Castro and smokes cigars with sinful nostalgia; a cardinal who witnessed Pius XII's collaboration with the Nazis during the world war and is a slave to gluttony; a prince who was caught making love with his sister, who was exiled to Boston, while he was placed under the custody of a Jesuit; a worker priest, a heretical theologian… these are some of the characters in this film, all of them confined in a strange convent run by a tyrannical and twisted nun.