In Elizabethan England, practicing Catholicism is a crime punishable by death. Stephen Long, a newly arrived priest, faces the peril of ministering in secret, while Caroline Wingate, forced into a Protestant marriage, wrestles with a different kind of martyrdom—denying her true vocation. As their fates intertwine, their courage and faith defy the relentless persecution of Queen Elizabeth’s regime, proving that faith, not power, shapes history’s deepest truths.