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In this powerful true crime memoir Joan Nockels Wilson recounts a woman’s quest to confront the priest who sexually molested her brother. It is also the heartbreaking story of the traumatic effects on an Irish-American family after they discover that Joan’s younger brother Tim was sexually molested by their Chicago parish priest Rev. John Baptist Ormechea. Twenty years after the fact Joan's brother revealed the abuse after reading the Boston Globe’s exposé of predatory priests later enacted in the film Spotlight. Living in Alaska far from her family’s Chicago home Joan plunged into a guilt-tinged depression. She then became consumed by what she saw as the priest’s treachery as the priest had often been at their dinner table and had even presided over the wedding of Joan and her first husband.