Antonello sends a confession letter to a religious magazine hoping that it will be published. In a hospital room a priest lies in bed recovering from a terrible car accident. Father Z., through his column "Conversations with the Father", responds to his readers' letters with unshakable conviction, aided by his devoted and resigned assistant Domenico. Each envelope is marked by the existential conflicts of human nature. Some are creased and tear-stained, others adorned with desperate pleas or wry comments on life's seemingly insurmountable challenges. The latest letter is that of Antonello, in which the brutal murder of a boy is claimed. The letter has the features of a macabre and grotesque story where every word is engraved with the anguish of a soul teetering on the abyss of damnation. Antonello's pathetic request dances between the realms of reality and imagination, leaving the doubt of guilt like a specter fluttering in the room.