Wrongly arrested and imprisoned for the murder of a woman in his suburban Queens neighborhood, Daniel Miller is later freed by the Truth and Justice Project. After fourteen years in prison, he needs to start over with nothing. The Project’s counselors set him up with an apartment in East Harlem and a part time job at a neighborhood grocery. He finds a mealsite nearby and is able to make ends meet — barely.
That’s where he meets Sister Elizabeth Rojas of the Sisters of Mercy who run Mary’s Kitchen, across East 109th Street from the church and their convent. A young novice, she still has a lot of questions about the world and about her calling as a nun. The two find much in common, as unlikely as that might be, and become good friends and confidants. All the while, the widower of the murder victim is hunting him, convinced of his guilt and that a great injustice had been committed by Miller’s release. He intends to track down Miller and correct that perceived miscarriage of justice and have his revenge.
The pretty young nun would just be collateral damage.
