When the pain is so bad, can a man ever find his way back to the light? Toby Riordan has sunk as low as a man can when death becomes his best friend. He calls out to the darkness for someone to listen, to help. When all he perceives is silence, he decides that it's all a joke, a fable. That maybe Karl Marx wasn't too far off. A djinn and a television program give him the tools to find out for himself, give him the chance to go laugh in someone's face about it all. Toby lands in the middle of Nazareth of the first century—and meets the young Yeshua ben David. The boy who will one day be known as Jesus. But the closer he gets to the young man, the more he finds that maybe divinity isn't a fairy tale. That in losing his past, Toby just might gain his future. And that finding his faith may be as easy as accepting that he was never really alone to begin with.