London-based journalist Robert Torres goes back to Spain to research a book about the founder of Opus Dei, Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer. He knows his estranged, dying father Manolo and Josemaria grew up together and were friends until Josemaria chose the priesthood and Manolo got caught up in the Spanish Civil War. But some long-festering secret also drove them apart and Robert wants to learn what it was.