As a religious and pensive eleven-year-old, Jason Trisch is again subjected to his father's corporal punishment-yielding his increasingly cynical view of God's goodness and mercy. One day after church, Jason finds a Bible passage that gives him hope. Hope that evil will be punished some day. Thirty years later, Jason meets a four-faced form in what appears to be a dream. During this encounter, the form hands him a message. He memorizes the words,...