Adapted byHattie Naylor from Stein's autobiography. Born into a German Jewish family, Stein was a brilliant philosopher, working alongside Edmund Husserl , the father of phenomenology. By 1933 she had converted to Catholicism and decided to become a cloistered Carmelite nun.
Nine years later she was taken to
Auschwitz, where she was killed. In 1998 she was declared a saint of the Roman
Catholic Church. With Fiona Shaw as the voice Of Edith Stein. Producer Kate McAII