二战期间，失明少女玛丽洛尔·勒布朗寄居叔公家避难，遇见精于修理收音机的德国有为青年韦纳·芬宁。两人透过不为人知的方式交流，从而对人性怀抱信念，并寻得希望之光。

该剧改编自普利策奖获奖小说，透过两位主人公交织十载的生命历程，描摹出最真挚动人的人间温情。

In 1980s England, Canon Daniel Clement, the Rector of Champton, finds himself unexpectedly entangled in a murder case when a dead body turns up in the church. When Daniel announces a plan to modernize the church, the parish is suddenly divided. And then a body is found dead at the back of the church. As the police move in and the bodies start piling up, Daniel is the only one who can try and keep his fractured community together... and catch a killer.