Fr. Raph has no business being a priest, and he knows it. Black, late thirties, sharp-edged, and quietly falling apart; he serves a St. Louis parish and neighborhood facing the kind of decline cities never quite recover from, but continuously need stopgaps for.
When his fragile and reckless brother surfaces with news that pulls Fr. Raph back into a family history he's spent a decade burying, his carefully held life starts to fracture. His family is unraveling. His neighborhood needs him. His faith (never as steady as he pretends) is becoming impossible to fake. And the past he ran from is no longer willing to stay quiet.
You Good? isn't about religion, Catholics, or priests, though all the good, bad, and ugly will be explored. It's about our inner turmoil, and the obligations that won't let us ignore it. The short examines what it costs to stay communal with those we disagree with and who or what we follow when we don't know where we're going. Fr. Raph is just the lens. The story is ours.
