Three Catholic priests live in a rectory together. Young Father Daniel runs daily and lost his father in the past year. Father Ollie really likes food and is a big fan of Indiana University basketball. More elderly Father Victor is completely devoted to the church with little outside interests. He finds comfort in setting up the candles and the church for mass by himself in his own specific way. They eat together, set the weekly schedule for baptisms and church services and run the general work of the church. They also discuss scripture, their proposed homilies, and the meaning of God in their lives.
One Friday night young Father Dan meets Jane through the confessional box. She tells him she is a musician and is dying. She is new to the church thing but over the weeks they become friends to the point of playing "battleship" in the confessional. Jane explains how she wants her remains to be disposed of but changes her mind at times. She invites Dan to hear her sing at her coffee house and he goes. One night they reverse roles and she wants him to unburden himself. He tells her that he is happy to be a man of God and help people but he does not see Dan gives her a gift of a Bible after a bingo night and she gets angry.
Throughout the movie each priest rehearses a homily. Dan teaches that death gives meaning to life. Enjoy life now for we all die. Father Ollie teaches compassion. We all need compassion that means to suffer with another; we need to comfort the sick and be there with the dying. Father Victor preaches that no one sees God but he lives inside each of us. God, love, and man are one.

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