You know only the best boys get chosen to be altar boys, you’re very lucky,” Father Gallo says to young Dakota. But even as he holds his smile steady and maintains an even countenance, Dakota can barely contain himself inside. He is overjoyed to have been selected as an Altar Boy, especially considering the difficult path he has had before showing up on the steps of St. Patrick Catholic Academy. There was a time when he thought his parents would never speak to him again, which meant that he would be on his own on the streets of his tiny hometown. There would be no salvation for him, not even a meal on his way to his lonesome demise. Where would it be, he often wondered? In some back alley, on someone’s porch, trying to scrounge for a scrap of bread? But then one day, he found his way to the steps of St. Patrick, and the priests there let him in. They fed him, they clothed him, and they showed him the light of their teachings and all it means to become closer to a higher power...