Ever since he was a boy growing up in Brazil, all Acacio wanted was to please his parents: get good grades in school, meet a nice girl, stop being so... gay.

 In a clash between what he wants and who he is, Acacio turns to increasingly extreme remedies, treatments found all too easily in a Catholic nation that sees homosexuality as an aberration, a perversion, something to be cured, whatever the cost.

 Acacio will live. He will survive. But what will be the nature of the life he leads? What price will be extracted in his search for a Blessed Cure?