Sundays offers a powerful portrait of a young woman’s vocation

The film Sundays explores the internal experience of a teenager feeling called to the life of a cloistered nun. Set in the Basque region of Spain, the story follows 17-year-old Ainara as she attends a high school retreat led by an order of cloistered nuns.

While her family and friends are not religious, Ainara feels drawn to the religious life. The film depicts her psychological response to this vocation against the backdrop of a loving but tense home life following the death of her mother. Unlike recent films based on true stories, such as A Hidden Life, Father Stu, or Cabrini, Sundays is a work of fiction.