La série se déroule aux Etats-Unis en 1934, durant la Grande Dépression de l'entre deux guerres. Nous y suivons deux personnages : Ben Hawkins, jeune fermier recueilli par le Carnivàle, un cirque ambulant où se côtoient femme à barbe, sœurs siamoises, homme-lézard et autres télépathes et dirigé par le mystérieux "Patron". Ainsi que Justin Crowe, un révérend officiant dans la petite paroisse de Mintern et aidé par sa sœur Iris.

On découvre vite que ces deux hommes sont liés par quelque mystérieux destin... qui sont-ils réellement et quelle est cette destinée ?

Dans cette histoire fictive, un homme charismatique à la tête d'un étrange mouvement spirituel sème le trouble dans le paysage géopolitique mondial.

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.

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 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.