If you've seen the award-winning 1963 movie (Sidney Poitier won the Best Actor award for his performance as Homer Smith), you know the story. A black ex-GI, savoring his freedom by traveling the nation, stops to briefly help a group of German nuns and ends up building a chapel for them. The simple plot, though, is filled with symbolism and conflicts - faith vs. reality, freedom vs. authoritarianism, acceptance vs. racism, etc. This 127-page story is well told by William Barrett and can be finished quickly. It took me awhile only because I had more pressing professional and personal issues with which to deal. I heartily recommend "Lillies of the Field," both in book and movie formats.