Vissarion was a Russian traffic policeman before he declared himself the reincarnation of Christ and founded the Church of the Last Testament, a community of thousands living in the forests near Minusinsk in southern Siberia. Filmmaker George Carey spends a weekend among them, filming a village that bans alcohol, tobacco, and meat, runs on solar power, and keeps its own calendar built around Vissarion's teachings. Carey talks with the disciples who gave up prior lives to be there: a former Soviet missile officer who now sings devotional songs, and a Lithuanian artist who says a Bulgarian clairvoyant led her to the settlement. The film sets the bleakness of the surrounding depopulated countryside against the built order of Vissarion's compound, and follows the run-up to the community's holiest day, when followers gather to await their leader's descent from the mountain above the village. Carey lets the believers speak for themselves, tracing what draws people from very different backgrounds to hand their lives over to one man in a place this remote.