"Conspiracy of Silence" is a British drama film that challenges celibacy and its implication for the Catholic Church in the 21st century. When a priest commits suicide and two trainees are expelled from a seminary, a journalist starts to investigate the Vatican's silence on broken vows of celibacy. The local investigative journalist, David Foley (Jason Barry), writes a story that publicly identifies a gay priest living with HIV as having had an AIDS protest at the Vatican three years earlier, leading to a re-examination of the Church's celibacy requirement for priests.