Acts of Contrition: The past is often just around the corner

The past is often just around the corner.



Gloria Warren's charmed life as a Capitol Hill employee in 1972, takes an unanticipated plunge into weirdness after a mysterious brief encounter with Thelma Jean, her 5th grade classmate. Unearthed nightmarish memories of Our Lady of Sorrows at the hands of Sister Ursula and of Gloria's own shameful behavior follow. Guided by her instincts-which are almost always wrong-she sets out to make amends by embarking on a screwball investigation that is both hilarious and menacing and which puts her job, her sanity and even her life at risk.