Ministry.5

"Why are you so afraid to come back? This place can't hurt you; the buildings and streets can't hurt you and those people are long gone." But Yoda was wrong.Ministry.5 tells the story of Father Peter McKay, whose life is an unhappy pilgrimage of adapting then moving on in an ever-repeating cycle of dissatisfaction. Defined by history, he is fractured and broken, a reflection of post-Brexit Britain as together they are caught in a downward spiral of immorality, fake news, drugs and dogma in the new age of protest.Peter takes the first steps towards confronting his past, leaving his latest version to return to Liverpool, the city that defined him. Here, his complex and contradictory personality draws him to a church with its own tempestuous history, set within the joyful, chaotic nihilism of The Lurk, an estate that doesn't want it. As Peter is pitched into this parallel reality of eccentrics, gang violence and child soldiers, he must also fight internal battles of addiction and mental illness, for he is schizophrenic, contradictory, at odds with himself as he veers from piety to depravity then back again.Ministry.5 is the story of a man who tries to overcome memories of himself, in a time and place where reality is in flux. It is a story of trying to inspire good whilst discovering its opposite as he finds truth and alternative truths, God and science, purity, debauchery, love, hate, forgiveness and revenge as reality is flipped until fact and fiction become inseparable. Ministry.5 is Part I of The Jarg Trilogy, following Peter's journey, his evolution, his ascension, as he confronts the darkness within himself and the dark heart of the nation, for their stories are entwined. "I am a product of my environment, a present tempered by past, reflecting the world around me."As the country burns, what version of Peter will emerge?