I Will Bring Fire Onto This Earth

The year is 1988, and psychiatrist Tom Allen is still recovering from the death of his wife and an ill-fated love affair with Alice. When a boy at the local Catholic school goes missing, questions are asked of many in the community. Two popular clergy members – Father Andrassi and Brother Warner – launch a desperate search to find the missing boy. But the church is also facing internal moral problems, and Tom is called in to counsel a number of the priests dealing with a range of personal issues. As Cardinal Neville prepares to retire, his time in the position is celebrated by state MP Margaret Wallace, but a battle has also begun for the top job in the Sydney archdiocese.

Sydney, 1988. L’Église catholique est en ébullition. L’Opus Dei veut mettre fin au vent de modernité et de réformes prônées par le concile Vatican II. Dans ce contexte d’extrêmes tensions religieuses, le psychiatre Tom Allen, catholique pratiquant, père de deux enfants et veuf depuis peu, accepte la proposition du cardinal de recevoir en consultation des prêtres déboussolés par cette crise. Au fil des séances, il se rend compte que l’Église tente d’étouffer un scandale lié à la disparition d’un enfant. Cette révélation pourrait bien ébranler la foi et les convictions de Tom.