As a girl, the noble Wiborada refuses to marry. She flees to the monastery of St. Gallen to join her brother and embarks on a dangerous pilgrimage to Rome. There, she is inspired to lead a religious life modeled after the monks in the monastery of St. Gallen - something impossible for a woman in the 10th century. Wiborada seeks her own path. Viewed with suspicion by the clergy, she only avoids the stake thanks to her negotiation skills. She agrees to be walled into a cell, where she can dedicate her life entirely to asceticism. However, the monks did not anticipate Wiborada's prophetic abilities. A novel about a brave woman who was canonized 100 years after her death.