When a young woman approaches the vicar of St James's claiming rape by another priest, his beliefs are called into question the more he listens and tries to help. Her story of abuse begins to take over his work in the small, deprived inner-city English parish with its demanding, funny and inspiring people. As winter gives way to spring and early summer, there are drugs and burglaries, deaths, police visits and many pots of tea. But can the church authorities be held to account, and how to find love and hope in such a struggle?