Nazis terrorizing Jews and Jewish sympathizers discover 6-year-old Marcello Luciari's father hiding his best friend Chiano's family. Despite absorbing the blows of unfathomable brutality and loss, Marcello navigates the callous tides of injustice swelling in rivers of hate.

Outraged by Pope Pius XII's silence throughout the Holocaust, he rises from the rubble of occupied Rome armed with spiritual idealism and venerable courage. He shapes his destiny as a vicar of valor by challenging self-justifying Catholic authority and contemptable behavior shrouded beneath the Church's bureaucratic armor. After pursuing parallel humanitarian paths for 75 years, Marcello and Chiano earn entry into Rome's highest levels of religious influence and set the stage to inaugurate a noble, progressive Catholic Church.

This emotionally jarring poignant story of virtue amidst a theater of inhumanity seizes your heart from the moment its beguiling characters dance onto page one, through their triumphant climax.