Artie is a lonely middle-aged sacristan in a local church who falls in love with a married woman who comes to change flowers on the altar. Also in his life are a bedridden mother, whom we never see, a simple-minded altar boy called Dominic and a troubled young priest. Artie’s life brightens up when he kisses Angela in the belfry after Dominic’s birthday party, and the affair begins. His whole world come tumbling down around him, when her husband finds out about it and puts an end to the affair.
