Penance

Bound by misery. Marked by sin. Set free by death.

Tough, cynical Jimmy. Little T, who's fifteen and looks twelve. Avery, the overweight con artist. Young Miranda in lace and alcoholic hopes. Without homes. Without families. They dwell in shadows cast by neon, the violent eddies of urban America. They trade their innocence for food, abuse their faded hopes, and then a monster comes among them, stalking...

He lives in the suburbs. In a house like any other. But he does not belong. It is their fault he has lost his wife, his family. Everything. Cruising Chicago's uptown, he vows to cleanse the streets of them...

Jimmy makes a desperate pact with a man of the cloth stained by his own sins. Together, the street hustler and the priest search for the madman whose suburban basement has become a chamber of horrors, the terrifying home for those who have no home...