A former priest is driven to escape the guilt of his past and to find forgiveness by continually reproducing the sacrifice of Christ in a bizarre secret ritual. Can the detectives discover his grizzly secret before he commits his most heinous murder yet? He was brought up outside of normal society, where his father and religious guides nurtured his sense of morality, but they did not foresee what a fanatic would do in pursuit of the unattainable standards of their teachings.
The city hides a dark secret. He is seen as a holy man, and has an almost cult-like status, but the people who seek him out for moral and spiritual guidance do not know that in the next room, a victim may be dying a slow death, a sacrifice paying the wages of his sin to appease his vengeful god. Nobody has a clue that the abandoned graveyard hosts more bodies than gravestones. When the ultimate innocent goes missing, neither the clergy nor the investigating officers realise how little time they have left before this victim will pay the price.