On the last day of the retreat, Alice befriends a socially awkward classmate while Father Murphy pulls Wade aside. Gina counsels Alice and gives her a ride back to the retreat, encouraging Alice to look into colleges on the West and East Coasts and finally assuaging Alice's curiosity about what "tossing salad" means. That night, Alice flees the campgrounds and stumbles upon a lesbian bar, where she and the owner, Gina, commiserate about how the fear of damnation can warp an adolescent's development. Outside, finding herself alone with Chris, Alice kisses him, but he becomes overwhelmed and runs away. Alice returns to Father Murphy's office and frames Wade for the earlier break-in while hiding to make her escape, she catches Father Murphy masturbating to a pornographic video saved on his computer. Again on cleaning duty, Alice witnesses Nina kissing, then fellating, another senior leader in the woods Alice shares this with Laura, who refuses to believe Alice, accuses Alice of breaking into Father Murphy's office, and ends their friendship, calling Alice a "pervy psycho".
Alice confronts Wade about his complicity in the rumor's spread by failing to deny it, and he leaves without admitting his fault or apologizing.
He later pushes Alice to confess to acting on her sexual temptations with Wade, and doesn't believe her insistence that nothing happened. On the third day of the retreat, Father Murphy announces his discovery of an explicit chat on his computer of course, no one claims responsibility.
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She runs into Nina, who lightheartedly guilts Alice about Alice's presumed sexual encounter with Wade, another instance of Alice's inability to be free of the rumor even while "on Jesus's time". Once she is alone, she logs onto an AOL chat room from Father Murphy's office computer to ask what "tossing salad" means before she can find out, the sound of footsteps causes her to hastily shut off the computer and leave. Nina confiscates Alice's phone and, as a punishment, Father Murphy assigns Alice to cleaning duties around the retreat house. On the second day of the retreat, Alice fakes an injury on a hike to get closer to Chris. That night, while playing on her contraband cell phone, Alice accidentally discovers that she can pleasure herself using her phone's vibrating feature however, she stops soon after looking at the crucifix hanging in her room. Chris is friendly and enthusiastic, and after Alice is assigned to his group, the two begin to bond. When they arrive on the retreat campgrounds, Laura is excited to find that Nina is a retreat leader, while Alice eyes Chris, a hunky senior who is also a retreat leader.
Veda's words about sex echoing in her mind.Īlice and Laura both decide to attend the school's next "Kirkos" spiritual retreat- Alice to return to the path of righteousness, and Laura to be accepted by Nina, a popular senior. Later that day, during the sacrament of reconciliation, Alice confesses venial sins to Father Murphy and receives a light penance of twenty prayers, which she immediately and fervently fulfills in the school chapel, Father Murphy and Mrs. Veda, who prevents Alice from serving at Mass. Alice denies this, admitting to not knowing what the phrase means. The following Monday, the school is abuzz with a rumor that Alice "tossed the salad" of a classmate, Wade, at Laura's party over the weekend. She struggles with accepting her burgeoning feelings of sexual desire after both Father Murphy and her best friend, Laura, cause her to feel ashamed of them. Alice is a sexually inexperienced but curious junior at a strict Midwestern co-ed Catholic high school, where Father Murphy instructs her Morality class that any sexual activity not aimed toward procreation within a heterosexual marriage is a sin, with eternal damnation as punishment.
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