Almas y cuerpos

1960s: a group of young English Catholics brought up in faith, chastity and "spiritual innocence" see their beliefs falter in the middle of the sexual revolution: Michael, tormented by guilt; Polly, with a great sexual appetite; Dennis and Angela, the spitting image of Christian righteousness; Adrian, uncompromising and heroic; Violet, sunk in depression; Ruth, who never seems to be interested in boys, and Miles, who has been waiting for years to be liked by women, are an example of the thousands of students who suffered in their flesh the dilemma between virtue and sin. It is not an easy time to stay true to customs and tradition. On the one hand, there are sex and the pill; on the other, the traditional Church. Carnal desire and the modern world conflict with the shame of disappointing Christ and the fear of hell. Whitbread Prize winner Souls and Bodies portrays, with keen wit, the social transformation that occurred after Vatican II and the papal encyclical against contraception.