Morven is a lonely Catholic schoolteacher who happens to be gay. Every day she dreams of finding true love but her life is made harder by her clinging, terminally ill, alcoholic mother who wants her to marry someone nice and have kids.
Morven must hide her 'secret' from both her mother and the school, but little does she know that her mother hides a life changing secret too. Into their life comes a broken woman and an emissary from the Catholic Church and suddenly events propell them towards a climax where skeletons come bursting out of closets and a terrible tragedy ensues. Life for Morven and her Mother, will never be the same again.