Behind the disguise of good hides the soul of evil.
For centuries, a secret Order has existed within the Church. Following a series of unexplained murders, a renegade priest (Heath Ledger) begins an investigation that hurls him into a maelstrom of unimaginable evil, murder and the knowledge that there is a fate worse than death.
The priest's search takes him to The Sin Eater - a key figure in this mysterious and ancient Order. The immortal Sin Eater's role is nothing less than playing God on earth by absolving the unforgivable of their sins outside the Church, allowing great evil to go unpunished.
Burdened with centuries of evil, The Sin Eater craves the luxury of death. But who will eat his sins and grant eternal peace? Who will carry on his dark tradition and continue the work of the Order? As the young priest uncovers the answers and pursues these paragons of evil, he fights to save his own soul and that of the woman he loves.
In THE ORDER, Heath Ledger is Alex, a conflicted priest who cherishes his church's holy tradition against the onslaught of modernization. Shannyn Sossamon plays Mara, a troubled artist with whom the priest shares a turbulent past. Their consuming relationship generates a passion that rivals Alex's love for God, and is told against a backdrop of inscrutable mystery.
Mark Addy is cast as Thomas, Alex's best friend, spiritual colleague in a near-extinct brotherhood, and sleuthing partner in a detective story. Benno F�rmann has the role of Willaim Eden, The Sin Eater, sated with centuries of consuming sins and gaining knowledge of sinners' evil, and now weary of immortality. Peter Weller creates the role of powerful Cardinal Driscoll, whose convoluted dogma mirrors life's perpetual dance of good and evil.
A puzzling, horrific death brings these disparate characters together in Rome, where they inhabit a neo-Gothic world tucked away in the 21st century. Alex, Mara and Thomas soon discover that the strange demise may be the work of The Sin Eater. The trio of amateur detectives is quickly caught up in the dark mystery of the immortal being, thought to be long extinct. Their stay in the Eternal City grows increasingly complex, frightening and deadly as they face moral dilemmas and inch closer to illuminating dark truths that should not see light.
Amid the horrors discovered during the investigation into The Sin Eater, the relationship between Alex and Mara is the heart and soul of THE ORDER.
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