‘Pray for Our Sinners’ documents filmmaker Sinéad O’Shea’s return to her hometown, Navan, in a bid to understand how the Catholic Church exerted almost complete control there until the last decade. In Ireland and across the world, how can atrocities take place in the public eye, while silent collusion prevails? She discovers a group of townspeople who found a way to resist. The film documents their victories, their ongoing stru􀀁les and the eccentricities of a small town. These astonishing yet uplifting stories use rare first hand testimonies to describe the horrors of mother and baby homes, the prevalence of violence against children and the co-dependent relationship between the Church, State and its people.