The year is 1976, during the dark times - for both the Catholic Church and New York City. James is a college philosophy professor with too much time on his hands. When an old classmate asks for a favor, he drops in with little notion of what's ready for him. The college classmate is Father Gus Sadowski, a pastor in the middle of Bed-Sty, where the drive by criminals are on one side of the parish, and the mob is on the other. Father Gus is all alone...