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When a young woman opts to abort a miraculous conception, a Christian Fundamentalist group intervenes. Duped into an adoption scheme, Maggie agrees to carry the baby to term but gradually comes to suspect the entire arrangement. She ends up marooned at a rural service station, where she encounters a wise old radio preacher, Isaiah, and his reluctant prophet of a son, Manny, who end up guiding her on the rest of her journey. It's not an easy journey, however, as Maggie is stalked, chased and forced off the road. In a woodsy field, she comes face to face with her assailants and herself, as she prepares to undergo a painfully unorthodox delivery and yet another unforeseen miracle...

A young reporter named Alex Briggs sets out to confront a local pastor, Willie Cooper, against her boss's wishes. She believes Cooper takes advantage of his congregants' belief in the rapture for monetary gain. Will she succeed in exposing Cooper or will she put her career on the line for nothing?

(Philosophie Gegen Falsche Propheten) A 1974 documentary on the ideas and legacy of philosopher Karl Popper. "The influential Austrian-born thinker elucidates his concept of falsifiability, which holds that scientific theories can never be proven true, only demonstrated to be false, and discusses his political philosophy, using his book The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945) as a starting point"