While crossing the street without paying attention, Jenny Welch is hit by the car driven by Father Bernard Cutler. He is returning to the town to work in a nearby church and is looking for a place to live. Further, he was the boyfriend of her sister Vanessa Welch in the past. Jenny is troubled since her beloved boyfriend Terry Wyatt has just dumped her. Father Cutler offers to listen to her in the church. Later, Jenny heads to the church expecting to see Cutler, but she ends confessing her sins to Father Xavier. She decides to accept the invitation of her friend Robert to go to a bar, and when he brings her back, Father Xavier is stalking her and sees where she hides the key of Vanessa's store and apartment. Jenny leaves Bob in her apartment to buy cigarettes and Father Xavier brutally attacks him in the apartment almost killing him. Father Xavier becomes obsessed by Jenny, and shows to her that he has recorded her confession to blackmail her. She tells to Vanessa and to Father Cutler what has happened to her, but they believe she is emotionally affected by Terry's absence. Soon Father Xavier begins a crime spree to kill those that discover he is a psychopath deranged man of God.
—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil