When 一三-year-old seminarian Sacramento Santos joins a new order, he hopes to rise through levels of obedience to Perfect Obedience” But this progression proves to be more than just a spiritual journey Sacramento is adopted by the order s founding father, Ángel de la Cruz, and over the course the year they fall in love and surrender to the most intense, blissful, and contradictory episode of their lives Years later, older and wiser, Sacramento leaves the order regretting that episode, and he decides to seek justice from his old tutor