Samuel is a young man in the process of becoming a priest, before taking his vows and after many years he returns to an old family home in the countryside, where a distant uncle, Arturo, lives with his young daughter Marianne who is pregnant. While he is there and experiences his first contact with the outside after a long time, he begins to develop a bond with Marianne and with that buried side of his past. Samuel will realize that as he seeks to define his faith, there is something else that he is always on the lookout for.