Denise and Wesley Johnson are an African-American couple of modest means. Denise becomes pregnant, forever changing their lives and the lives of five strangers: * Imani wa Ulimwengu, a priest who teaches and ministers to a group of people in remote Western Africa; * Donald Hemingway, a homeless denizen of the streets of San Francisco; * Mrs. Wilda Elvers, a partially blind and elderly woman living in Southern California; * Vera Hicks, a quiet and shy registered nurse at San Francisco General Hospital; * and Troy Shadale, a five-year-old boy who has not spoken a word since witnessing the death of his mother in a drive-by shooting. At the precise moment Denise and Wesley conceive their child, they are all sent spiraling into a long descent of bizarre and supernatural events, that one day brings them together . . .