PART 2. Athens Joan, now living as a seminarian in Athens, starts to grow up and embrace what it really means to live as a man for good. She works diligently to look, think and 'feel' like a male - as simply being a 'woman in disguise' would be too dangerous and doomed to failure. Although this process is challenging, her overarching desire to be a scholar, then teacher at the seminary seems undisputed even by God, so the sacrifice of her femininity feels worth it. But when Joan meets a young woman called Thea, every decision she has made thus far is called into question...