THE STORY: It's 1964. The world is changing. Even the church is changing, with the Second Ecumenical Council (AKA Vatican II) modernizing rigidly-held practice and dogma, making Catholicism more user-friendly. But there's turmoil in the St. Nicholas Church School in the Bronx. The hidebound principal, Sister Aloysius, frowns on anything new or modern or different. She disdains ballpoint pens, and secular Christmas songs. And being nice to students. For her, the stern way is the best way. She tries to teach this to the naive and sympathetic new teacher, Sister James. The senior Sister is unnerved by the young priest, Father Flynn, who plays basketball with the students, and spends time alone with the altar boys. She wants to bring him down, and a faint whiff of impropriety is her opening. She goes at him with a vengeance, accusing him of unseemly behavior with the only black boy in the school. The boy's mother is called in. Habits notwithstanding, nothing is black and white. Lives are affected, potentially destroyed. But the scent of Doubt hangs in the air, long after the lights go down.