We Wait In Joyful Hope

Sister Bernie D'Amato doesn't look like a nun

In an oversize Bob Marley T-shirt, she smokes weed, befriends local gangs and passes out condoms to the Ukrainian prostitutes who cruise around their New Jersey slum

And she's a force to be reckoned with - after thirty years running a women's center in a New Jersey slum she's won battles with priests, police and even gang leaders

But now she's facing her biggest threat yet ...

When the women's shelter Bernie runs comes under threat from a property developer, she vows to fight back

To this end, she recruits a teenage X-Factor wannabe and an ageing ex-nun

But as pressure mounts on the shelter to take their pay-out and close down, tensions start to mount in a community struggling to survive

We Wait In Joyful Hope is a funny and touching exploration of religion and capitalism in contemporary USA