Richard Kates

At a Catholic boys' school, domineering disciplinarian Father Goddard rules over his pupils with an iron hand. When one of his teenage charges confesses to murder, the dogmatic but deeply repressed Goddard finds his faith challenged and his life spiralling dangerously out of control.

The world is coming to an end, and the last survivors board a space-ship ready to leave the doomed planet Earth in search of a new world.