The Whisky Priest Timeline and Summary
MoreThe Whisky Priest Timeline and Summary
- Choosing to aid a boy's dying mother, the priest misses a chance to escape.
- He takes shelter in the barn of Captain Fellows, but has to leave at night.
- Tired from travel and evading the police, the priest arrives at the village where his daughter and former lover live. There he learns that the police are taking hostages.
- When the lieutenant arrives, the priest tries to pull a Katniss Everdeen, offering himself in place of a chosen hostage, but to no avail.
- Before he leaves, he tries to connect with his daughter, but fails at this too.
- Making for Carmen, the priest takes on the unwelcomed company of the mestizo, a potential betrayer, but escapes him at last.
- In the capital, the priest searches for a way to purchase wine so he can say Mass.
- The police catch him with brandy and he's thrown in prison.
- After being released, the priest finally escapes the region where his life is in danger.
- The mestizo finds him and persuades him to give consolation to a dying man.
- The lieutenant captures the priest and has him executed.