After reaching a dead end in an investigation of seemingly unrelated local murders, police learn all of the victims share the same peculiar birthmark.

It's 1999, and as the end of the millenium approaches, people are attempting to find spiritual enlightenment. But a few people want to skip all the work that entails, and a holy Tenktonese relic in the hands of a heretic is giving them a shortcut. But it's not quite as easily controlled as she says.

A small California farming community gets caught up in the bloody grip of big city crime and corruption.