It’s the early 2000s when the Catholic clergy sex-abuse crisis exploded into public consciousness and the Catholic Church is reeling in sex abuse scandals with a tsunami of lawsuits. Theo is a newly ordained Catholic priest when he falls in love with Mark who will be soon ordained a priest. The romantic love affair is clandestine
and at the start poignantly distressing to Theo who cannot come to terms with his normal human capacity for intimate loving because of the crippling influences of his rigid upbringing, characterized by his blind religious faith.