Over two thousand years ago, a man named Jesus of Nazareth lived, preached about love and forgiveness to his friends and followers, ultimately was crucified on a cross, died, and rose on the third day.
Roland and Sherry were never close in high school-quite the opposite-and when they graduated, they each went their own amazingly successful ways, until circumstances and a woman named Delores drew them back together for an intimate moment in time.
A young man named David believes he has been offered the job of a lifetime and avidly accepts it, not having yet developed the wisdom which comes with maturity.
In Palermo, in the summer of 1225, Maurice, a young illuminator and translator in Frederick IIs palace, finds his life changed as he begins work on a strange Sufi manuscript.