Monastery. Sister Angelica and two other nuns are late to the chapel. The controller scolds them for not repenting like Sister Angelica. Some of the nuns admit that they still crave earthly pleasures - Sister Genovefa admits that she misses the lambs she used to keep, and Sister Dolcina craves sweets. Sister Angelica denies having any wishes, but the other sisters know that she desperately wants to hear the news from her family. She had not been in contact with them for seven years, and the sisters assume that she was a princess, who was exiled to a monastery for reasons they have not yet been able to fathom. Food workers are coming soon. One of them mentions a beautiful carriage waiting in front of the monastery, in which there is a visitor. Angelica was very surprised and, impatiently, asked her to describe the carriage down to the smallest detail. Then, the bell rang to announce the visitor. The reverend mother enters and informs Angelica that her aunt, the princess, has come to visit her. Approaching, the princess rejects Angelica's gestures of intimacy. The princess explains that, after the death of Angelica's parents, she became the guardian of Angelica and her sister Ana Viola, which means that she has control over their inheritance ( princess, came to visit her. Approaching, the princess rejects Angelica's gestures of intimacy. The princess explains that, after the death of Angelica's parents, she became the guardian of Angelica and her sister Ana Viola, which means that she has control over their inheritance ( princess, came to visit her. Approaching, the princess rejects Angelica's gestures of intimacy. The princess explains that, after the death of Angelica's parents, she became the guardian of Angelica and her sister Ana Viola, which means that she has control over their inheritance (The principle of Gualtiero) . Ana Viola is about to get married, and the princess asks Angelica to sign how she renounces her share of the inheritance in favor of her sister who is marrying the man with whom Angelica was in an extramarital affair and who is the father of her child. The princess believes that Angelica, since she humiliated her family, is not entitled to a part of the inheritance. Broken by her aunt's cruelty, Angelica swears to repent of her sins, even though she can't erase the memory of her illegitimate son from her head. Then she finds out that her son passed away two years before that. Angelica's will is broken and she sobs and signs the document. The princess leaves and Angelica mourns for her son, and because he died without a mother next to him ( Senza mamma). In pain, he decides to join his son in paradise and drink poison. Then she realizes that she has committed a mortal sin and that she will not go to heaven, and she prays for salvation. The choir is heard and Angelica experiences the vision of the Blessed Virgin.
