When Rogelio, a good-hearted thief, hides inside a church in the El Milagro neighborhood, he is mistaken for the new seminarian. To save his skin, he plays along and slowly wins the hearts of the entire neighborhood. He finds friendship, solidarity, and an impossible love. But when several of his neighbors will make life hard for him, it threatens to expose his cover as The Rebel Novitiate.
Tatiana Singer is obsessed with the late 70s, experimental, cult classic film, "SIN3056843". She sets out to meet the film's reclusive director to understand the meaning of the convoluted film. Along the way she discovers there may be something paranormal about the film itself while her very existence is called into question.