Title: Holy Waters

Logline: A sensitive priest grapples with emotion and vocation embarking upon a final pilgrimage with a dying parishioner.

Synopsis: Fr. Brendan (51) is driven by a desire for something forbidden to him - his lust and love for a dying parishioner, Moll (28). His passion is unattainable - both through his chaste vocation and also the physical reality that Moll is going to die soon due to her terminal diagnosis. He is already demented for acting freely upon his emotion previously, embarking upon an affair with Moll on a recent pilgrimage to Lourdes, but is forced back into contact with her by Moll’s mother, Nonie (61) who invites him to the house to make plans for Moll’s funeral. Fr. Brendan grows tense when Moll acts flirtatiously towards him and he flees the house. Later, alone with his thoughts at the parochial house, he struggles with his desire and nostalgia for time spent with Moll, flicking through fun photographs of the two of them together in Lourdes. The next day, he returns to whisk Moll away on a romantic getaway, which he conceals as another holy pilgrimage to Nonie, which Nonie hopes might prove a final cure for Moll’s sickness. At a secluded seaside cottage, Moll and Fr. Brendan enjoy a final romantic evening together but things take a nightmarish turn when Moll collapses and Fr.Brendan disposes of her dead body in the sea to cover their tracks, staging the event as a suicide. Fr. Brendan is tasked with comforting Nonie about Moll’s death. Nonie is utterly distraught that Moll chose to end her life despite being due to die naturally anyway and questions Fr. Brendan on the religious ethics of this, much to his own turmoil and guilt. He returns to the parochial house, unable to speak aloud about his own deep affection and grief for Moll.