Daniel loves the Catholic Church. He also loves his girlfriend. He can’t have both.

Set in Ireland, this controversial film inspired by real events, challenges celibacy and it’s implications for the Catholic Church in the 21st century.

A can of worms is opened within the Irish Catholic Church following two controversial incidents, the suicide of Frank Sweeney (Patrick Lynch), a parish priest and the expulsion of Daniel McLaughlin (Jonathan Forbes), a young trainee priest from a nearby seminary, on the grounds that he was open to the sexual advances of a male colleague.

Daniel returns to the family home where, fighting his own demons in the form of his ex-love Sinead, (Catherine Walker), he is torn between his desire to return to the seminary and become a priest and his yearning to marry the woman he loves. Meanwhile a local journalist, David Foley (Jason Barry), is convinced that Sweeney’s death and Daniel’s expulsion are linked.  Father Mathew Francis (John Lynch) who was Father Sweeney’s lover and himself a former priest, helps to fuel Foley’s suspicions of a cover up in the Church.

Desperate to clear his good name and be re-instated, Daniel agrees to talk to Foley. As the story gathers momentum, the Church closes ranks. Things come to a head in a live television debate about celibacy in the Catholic Church today when finally the truth is revealed.