In 1st-Century Judea, spymaster Musan Deleig keeps a watchful eye on every preacher, itinerant healer and would-be messiah likely to incite a popular uprising against the Roman occupiers.
He becomes intrigued by a carpenter his own age who is preaching against oppression. Will the man they call Jesus the Nazarene be the one to cause Judeans to rise up against Rome?