Watch Rachel, Rachel

Spinster teacher Rachel lives an unfulfilled life in a Connecticut apartment with her widowed mother. But long pent up emotions begin to stir to life after an evangelist comes to town and Rachel's best friend Calla expresses sexual interest in her. But Rachel rejects Calla's homosexual advances, succumbing instead to the charms of classmate Nick Kazlik, visiting from his teaching post in the Bronx. Rachel quickly falls in love with Nick, but he fabricates a story about being married and soon leaves her alone again. Suspecting she is pregnant, Rachel bravely makes plans to leave her past behind.