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An African-American priest unearths evidence of a murder after being transferred to a small Catholic boarding school, and risks everything in order to set things right at the troubled academy. When a respected priest goes missing at Allentide, Father Andre James (Isaiah Washington) returns to the school he attended as a boy as a member of the staff. Now the more Father James learns about the murder, the more he begins to suspect foul play. Later, as the sordid details of the mystery slowly come into focus, the conflicted priest realizes that he'll have to face the secrets of his own past before he can reveal his shocking findings.