A wary CIA officer investigates a charismatic man who sparks a spiritual movement and stirs political unrest. Who exactly is he? And what does he want?
1934. Os Estados Unidos vivem alguns de seus piores dias com a Grande Depressão e os circos itinerantes são uma das poucas opções de lazer para os americanos. Todos contavam com uma aura de fantasia e ilusão, mas nenhum deles está tão cercado de mistérios como o circo comandado pelo anão Samson.
Ben Hawkins é um rapaz de 18 anos que, após assistir impotente à morte da mãe, é acolhido pela companhia circense. Ben conta com poderes surpreendentes: é capaz de ter premonições e curar deficientes. Justin Crowe, um padre que vive com sua irmã Iris na Califórnia, também tem sonhos proféticos e pouco a pouco descobre a extensão de seus poderes, que incluem submeter pessoas à sua vontade e fazer os pecados e maldades delas manifestarem-se na forma de visões horríveis. Ben e Justin pouco sabem um do outro. Mas estão prestes a enfrentar-se numa batalha épica.
British sitcom in which Reverend Philip Lambe, after becoming bored in his wealthy Oxfordshire parish, asks for a transfer to a more difficult assignment. Sent to Edendale, a fictional urban town in the Midlands, he is accompanied by his wife Emma, sixteen-year-old daughter Miranda and twelve-year-old son Peter.
The Family Holvak is an American drama series that aired on CBS from September, 1975 to June 28, 1977. The series centers on Rev. Tom Holvak, played by Glenn Ford, and his family living in the South during the Great Depression.
The Brighter Day is an American daytime soap opera which aired on CBS from January 4, 1954 to September 28, 1962. Originally created for NBC radio by Irna Phillips in 1948, the radio and television versions ran simultaneously from 1954-1956. Set in New Hope, Wisconsin, the series revolved around Reverend Richard Dennis and his four children, Althea, Patsy, Babby and Grayling.
The Brighter Day was the first soap opera to air on network television with an explicitly religious theme. Another soap opera created by Phillips, The Guiding Light, initially had a religious theme as a radio show but dropped it by the time the series moved to television.