Edgar Cayce lived from 1877 to 1945 and became known as the Sleeping Prophet, a man whose readings, delivered while he was in a self-induced trance, covered everything from diagnosing illness to prophesying future events. The film traces his life story, built around accounts of the near-death experiences he reportedly underwent, more of them documented than for anyone else on record, and the psychic readings that followed. It moves through his biography using narration, period photographs, and testimony from those who studied his case, laying out both the claims made about his abilities and the mystery of how an uneducated farmer's son came to speak in medical and metaphysical terms he supposedly could not have learned on his own. The film treats Cayce's reputation as the central puzzle rather than settling it, leaving room for skepticism alongside the believers' case. It works as a straightforward introduction to a figure who still anchors a large share of modern American psychic and alternative-health culture.