After fleeing his home and hiding in a Seminary in Dublin, Finbar Walsh feels he is safe, since his family are about to relocate to East London. He is determined to escape being forced to join the firm by his crime boss father. When he has finished his training he is sent to a church in Bermondsey. He's never felt suited to the priesthood, and temptation proves too much for him when he is attracted to a young female parishioner. She tires of him wanting to keep their affair quiet, and her attention strays to another man. She has no idea that he is closely related to Finbar. Soon everything...

Finbar Walsh gave up his illicit affair with Catherine Buckley many years before, but instead of putting all of his wrongdoing behind him, and sticking to the vows of the priesthood he begins a shadowy lifestyle on the wrong side of the law. He entered the priesthood to escape this lifestyle and his family who were deeply entrenched in it, but he finds himself dragged back into it by the threat of blackmail. After many years without any contact, he and Catherine meet again at her 50th birthday party, and feel that familair pull of love. As they rush outside to reunite, they are unaware that...