Stealing Fatima

As the last light of All Hallows' Eve falls on a small town at the tip of Cape Cod, Father Manuel Furtado begins his nightly ritual of gin, pills, prayer, and hours spent writing feverishly in his ledger. Though he is lulled by the deep luxury of the chemicals in his body, he battles with his private demons as he copies passages from Saint Augustine in a careful script.
But, unlike his usual uninterrupted reflection, this night there is a crash, sudden enough to pull Father Manny from the rectory and toward his church, Our Lady of Fatima. He finds a man there - his childhood friend Sarafino, whom he has not seen in decades - frail with illness and desperate to tell the priest about his recurring visits from the Virgin Mary. Despite Father Manny's grave doubts about Sarafino and his visions, he lets his old friend into his home and his life, and this single act ignites a series of events that challenge the faith of this fishing village, the parish, and Father Manny himself.
Stealing Fatima is the story of a priest's search for redemption in a town where, even in these modern times, the divine is possible.