Full-length: (1988/2023) Luke, a novice expelled from his rural monastic order for a scandalous sexual relationship, returns in the Spring of 1987 now with AIDS, seeking hospice and some measure of peace. His former mentor Brother Raphael, dying of cancer himself, intercedes on Luke's behalf to his friend and colleague Father Timothy, the abbot who demanded Luke leave the monastery. This sets off a long-delayed confrontation of the differences between the contemplative, poetic Raphael who has lived as a hermit and the responsible, pragmatic Timothy who is duty-bound to uphold the dogma of his faith and the traditions of his order. Luke also seeks to enlist his friend, the gay but celibate Brother Matthew who is now Timothy's assisant. Observing all is Father George, the ninety-six-year-old former novice master of Raphael and Timothy in their youth, who surprises with his insight as he drifts in and out of senility. Each man is his own monastery struggling with spirituality, sexuality, death, their individual images of God, and the acceptance of their deeply flawed selves and souls.

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