Mary and her friend, Rachel, are new students at St. Francis Academy, a boarding school run by the iron fist of Mother Superior. The immature teens grow bored and begin playing pranks on both the unsuspecting nuns and their unpleasant classmates, becoming a constant thorn in Mother Superior's side. However, as the years pass, Mary and Rachel slowly mature and begin to see the nuns in a different light.

A spoiled brat of a girl is orphaned in Victorian India and sent to live in England in her uncle's gloomy mansion. After uncovering the many secrets that lie in the house, she blooms anew, as do all those around her.