Calvary begins in a confessional in Ireland. Father James Lavelle (Brendan Gleeson) listens to a man describe how he was raped as child by a priest. The man then tells Father James that he will kill him the next Sunday on the beach. The way the confessor figures, a good priest will die for a bad one.
What follows is the week that Father James spends doing what he always does: caring for the people of his parish. And this is a motley group.
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