In a small Scottish parish, an English priest is stalked by the fear of
scandal, class hatred and lost ideals. Over the spring and summer of
2003, Father David becomes friends with two young people, Mark and Lisa:
by the year's end his life is the focus of public hysteria. As he looks
back to his childhood and to Oxford in the fever of student revolt,
Father David begins to reconsider the central events of his life, and to
see what may have happened to the political hopes of his generation.
Meanwhile, religious warfare breaks out on his doorstep.