A letter arrives at the Vatican signed with twenty-six women's names, each one declaring, in the film's phrase, "a big love affair with a priest." Directors Silvia Luzi and Luca Bellino use that letter as the spine of the film, tracking down some of the women who wrote it and the priests they loved, several of whom have since left the priesthood rather than choose between vocation and family. The film also follows what it calls "the sons of silence," children fathered by priests and raised, often publicly unacknowledged, on the margins of parish life their fathers still serve. Mandatory celibacy sits at the center of every testimony: why Rome enforces it, what it costs the men and women bound by it in practice, and how the Church has historically handled relationships it cannot officially admit exist. There is no narrator arguing a thesis; the interviews carry the film, moving between the women's accounts, the defrocked priests' own explanations, and the quieter presence of children who grew up inside a secret. The subject the letter names outright is one the Vatican has never had to answer in public before.