Condemned by both the Vatican and the fascist Spanish government before winning the Palme d'or at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival, legendary Spanish surrealist Luis Buñuel's delightfully lewd and deliciously cynical comedy follows a young novitiate who takes over her lecherous uncle's decaying estate and attempts to turn it into a model Christian community, and whose faith is put to the test when her "flock" of beggars and outcasts turns against her.