Robert Beckford, director of the Centre for Black Theology at the University of Birmingham, sets out to trace who actually wrote the Bible and why it still shapes politics and belief. He travels from Jerusalem, where American pilgrims carry crosses through the streets, to Rome for a meeting with the head of the Pope's Bible Institute, then on to the United States, driving an electric blue fin-tail car through Georgia to interview a Baptist minister who answers the authorship question with a single line: "Gaaad said it; that settles it; I believe it." In East London he talks to a former criminal turned boxing promoter about what scripture means outside church walls, and in Hebron he sits with a Jewish settler who explains land claims as divine entitlement. Dr. Richard Land, an adviser to President Bush, links militaristic Old Testament passages to modern conflict. Across these interviews the film treats the Bible less as a fixed ancient text than as a document still being argued over, quoted, and acted on.