Theology student Ian, caught in a shootout at a church, accidentally saves the gravely wounded Mafia don Dante. Dante develops a frenzied obsession with this cold, ethereally beautiful young seminarian and presses relentlessly. Faced with Dante's forceful pursuit, Ian — a devout believer — instinctively resists. But when the orphanage is set ablaze by his gambling-addicted adoptive father, and he himself is sold into an underground auction and subjected to humiliation, it is Dante who descends like a god of death to rescue him — and the relationship between the two begins to shift subtly.
