Mercy, Manitoba, 1948. Young priest August Day arrives to take over the church of St. Mary Immaculate, and his first service is to marry the town butcher to Mathilda. Once their eyes meet, the priest and Mathilda can see only each other, their affair and mutual obsession leaving its mark on the town long after it is over. Half a century later, another preacher arrives, with a damaged daughter he can't understand, and a belief that the key to his life lies in the m . . .
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