"Sarah and Abraham are visited in their old age by three travellers. Their conversation becomes increasingly unsettling and the visitors make the unlikely claim that Sarah is to have a new child. As the couple wonder who the bearers of such news might be, talk turns to a mission of vengeance, and a horrifying plan that leaves them pleading for their neighbours' lives.

Clemency introduces a contemporary twist to a biblical tale, creating the spiritual intensity and reflection for which James MacMillan's work is so well known."

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