The Awakening

In Alsace just before the World War, Marie Ducrot, a peasant who falls in love with Karl, a German Lieutenant. She is seen visiting Karl in his quarters, and an angry mob of townspeople hurl stones and curses at her. Marie, mistakenly reported dead, becomes a novice in a religious order. War breaks out, and von Hagen is injured in fighting near Marie's convent; he is cared for by Marie and persuades her to return to Germany with him. (AFI)