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A Catholic parish is torn apart when two of its members are accused of murder. It is 1806 - not a good time to be Catholic in Boston. When a man is brutally killed on the Boston Post Street, two unsuspecting Irishmen are incurred with the criminal offenses. For five weeks they rot in prison, denied a legal professional until just two days and nights before the ability to hear. It is a mockery of justice - a one-day trial that results in a unanimous verdict: The Irishmen will be hanged, dissected, and dismembered. Comforting them falls to Father Cheverus, a French émigré attempting to adjust to life in the brand new World. It is his work to help the condemned find tranquility, but any overture he makes to the prisoners will be found with an anti-Catholic backlash that may demolish his fledgling congregation. As he walks a fraught course, the priest must decide: Is his responsibility to his flock, or to God?
