Who was Emmanuel Trident?
Was he really Jesus Christ--as legend suggests?
On a wintry evening in 1940, a charismatic stranger suddenly appears in the crime-ridden village of Vesaria in the North Carolina mountains.
He brings harmony and prosperity to the community but then he marries the town outcast--the beautiful transgender Diana DuPree--and there is the miracle birth of twin sons. Enraged, Klansmen massacre the family and a horrendous plague wipes out all life in Vesaria within a week.
But myth says the Mountain Messiah actually escaped to a magic cave in the side of the mountain and remains asleep until a mystical signal awakens him.
His twin sons survive. One becomes a famous gay fashion designer. HIs sibling becomes a blazing replica of his father.
The two vow to find their father--and discover once and for all--if he really is the Messiah!