Lover's Prayer is a sweeping tale of an innocent rich boy's (Nick Stahl) infatuation with a beautiful young woman (Kirsten Dunst) who is summering next door. He quickly abandons toys and pastimes for the thrill of her seductive ways. But when he is finally confronted with who she really is and the tangled web she has spun, he is forced to become a man and understand that the world is more complicated than he ever suspected.

He begins spying on her, by day, by night, and as the truth about her secret scandal is revealed and the identity of her true lover emerges in the summer moonlight, he learns, through shattered innocence, the hardest lessons of life and love.