Deloris Van Cartier (Whoopi Goldberg) is a sassy lounge singer forced to hide out from the mob in the last place they’d expect to look–a quiet religious convent. There, her irreverent behavior attracts a flock of faithful followers–and before long, she turns the nuns’ tone-deaf choir into a soulful chorus of swingin’, singing sisters. After earning great reviews, sudden celebrity jeopardizes her hidden identity.