Jonas Nightengale is a fraudulent Christian faith healer who makes a living travelling around America holding revival meetings and conducting 'miracles' with the help of his friend and manager, Jane, and their entourage.
Η ταινία διαδραματίζεται στην αμερικανική ύπαιθρο στην περίοδο της οικονομικής κρίσης και της ποτοαπαγόρευσης στο φόντο του κινήματος θρησκευτικής αναβίωσης, που είχε τότε μεγάλη δραστηριότητα. Ο Έλμερ Γκάντρυ είναι ένας πλανώδιος πωλητής, που έχει το χάρισμα να μιλάει όμορφα και να πείθει τους ανθρώπους, αλλά είναι αδιόρθωτα γυναικάς και ασταθής στο χαρακτήρα.
A woman who believes she has been chosen by God to heal people is taken in by a greedy promoter and his shrewish wife to make the rounds of the rural South.
The film weaves around four stories all happening in metropolitan, dehumanizing Jakarta. In fact that is what it is about, the quality of meaninglessness of living in a place that turns people into zombies. In a place where meaning must be invented, these kids turn into the only place, the only culture they see worth tuning into: television and movies. Thus they slowly degenerate into the abysmal reinterpretation in a sort of sickening anti-hero, anti-social statements that goes absurdly a wrong turn.