Black Narcissus

On FX

A lush, psychologically claustrophobic adaptation of a literary classic about desire and faith colliding in an isolated mountain convent haunted by its own history.

Himalayas, 1934. A remote clifftop palace once known as the ‘House of Women’ holds many dark secrets. When the young nuns of St. Faith attempt to establish a mission there, its haunting mysteries awaken forbidden desires that seem destined to repeat a terrible tragedy. Adaptation of the 1939 novel by Rumer Godden.