 
		Plot
When a dead newborn is found, wrapped in bloody sheets, in the bedroom wastebasket of a young novice, psychiatrist Martha Livingston is called in to determine if the seemingly innocent novice, who knows nothing of sex or birth, is competent enough to stand trial for the murder of the baby.
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Cast
 
	Jane Fonda
Dr. Martha Louise Livingston
 
	Meg Tilly
Sister Agnes
 
	Anne Bancroft
Mother Miriam Ruth
 
	Anne Pitoniak
Dr. Livingston's Mother
 
	Winston Rekert
Det. Larry Langevin
 
	Gratien Gélinas
Father Martineau
 
	Guy Hoffmann
Justice Joseph Leveau
 
	Gabriel Arcand
Monsignor
 
	Françoise Faucher
Eve LeClaire
 
	Jacques Tourangeau
Eugene Lyon
 
	Janine Fluet
Sister Marguerite
 
	Deborah Grover
Sister Anne
 
	Michele George
Sister Susanna
 
	Samantha Langevin
Sister Jeannine
 
	Jacqueline Blais
Sister David Marie
 
	Françoise Berd
Sister Thérèse
 
	Mimi D'Estée
Sister Elizabette
 
	Rita Tuckett
Sister Geraldine (as Rita Tucket)
 
	Lillian Graham
Sister Madeline Marie
 
	Norma Dell'Agnese
Sister Geneviève
 
	Muguette Moreau
Sister Luke
 
	Janice Bryan
Sister Mary Joseph
 
	Agnes Middleton
Sister Paul
 
	France Arbour
Housekeeper
 
	Laurel Lyle
Helen the Receptionist
 
	Victor Désy
Librarian (as Victor Desy)
 
	Charlotte Laurier
Young Prostitute
 
	Peter Langley
Sister Geneviève's Family
 
	Nicole Marie Abbat
Sister Geneviève's Family
 
	Matthew Armstrong
Sister Geneviève's Family
 
	Chava Mandlsohn
Sister Geneviève's Family
 
	Charles S. Pottie
Sister Geneviève's Family (as Charles S. Pottie S.J.)
 
	Gerry Huckstep
Paramedic
 
	Marc Denis
Newscaster
 
	Herbert Luft
Television Reporter
 
	André Lacoste
Male Patient
 
	Jennifer Jewison
Female Patient
 
	Carole Chatel
Lab Technician
 
	Daniel Tremblay
Police Detective
 
		 
		 
		 
		 
		 
		 
		 
		 
		 
		 
		 
		 
		 
		 
		 
		 
		 
		 
		