After hjacking the hearse containing his wife's body, Ruby winds up in jail. Listless for nearly a year, he is finally transferred from jail to the rural Sunbridge Psychiatric and Rehabiliation Center, where he soon meets John Carter, who claims to be Christ--and Ruby's brother. All well enough, Ruby figures, for he's in a nuthouse. Anyway, he's managed to sneak off premises and meet beautful, bright Lisa, and the possiblity of a new life is opening up. But wait. What about that dark cloud that has hovered over town two weeks, ever since John Carter was admitted? And what about the media and preachers fighting over John Carter? And what about . . .
