Father Dowling comes to the aid of a former classmate who had left the priesthood twenty-five years earlier, when he is sued by a woman alleging that he had sexually exploited her as a child, a case that is complicated by the son she claims is his.

Widowed Susan Nebens is sick of her father-in-law interfering in her life, but she never meant to crush the poor man with her car! When she decides to hide the body instead of report the accident things get more and more complicated.