Ancient civilizations explained earthquakes, volcanoes, and lightning long before science could, and this film argues those explanations calcified into the religions still practiced today. Historians, religious scholars, and anthropologists lay out the case in interviews, tracing how myths built to explain natural disasters became doctrine, and how doctrine became a tool used to justify violence and oppression across centuries. The film's central move is comparative: it lines up the stories of Jesus, Krishna, and Buddha side by side, pointing out shared motifs of virgin birth, death, and resurrection across traditions that supposedly developed independently. Rather than debunking belief outright, it asks whether these parallels point to something older and more universal underneath organized religion, some shared human need the stories were built to answer. The tone stays inquisitive rather than combative, more interested in where the stories overlap than in which one is correct.