Look to the Lilies
Based on both the 1962 novel and film versions of "Lilies of the Field" , it tells the story of a group of German nuns , headed by a determined , dauntless Mother Superior , who manage to get an African American itinerant handyman/jack-of-all-trades named Homer Smith to build a chapel for the New Mexico community in which they live , despite not having money to pay him . 
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