Could Jerry Fenn, a not-so-successful reporter for a provincial newspaper, have imagined that a chance meeting on the road with a little girl would not only radically change his life, but also turn the small town of Benfield into a place of pilgrimage for thousands and thousands of adherents of the Catholic Church? not from all over the world? And the reason for everything is the supposedly miraculous appearance of the Holy Virgin, who endowed young Alice with the gift of healing. And only after truly monstrous events begin to occur in Benfield, mysteriously connected with the miracle girl, Fenn manages to penetrate the secret, hidden for many centuries in the annals of the church.