Nestor Gudfred's gift of silence causes dysfunctional young couple Jimmy Johns and Trish Heaps to inexplicably visit each other's difficult pasts, which include abuse and the loss of a parent in the first Gulf War. Already, people in town are coming to expect miracles from Nestor, and Pastor Clearwater has been asked to get involved. If that wasn't enough, an upside-down cat-headed apparition seems to narrate the story.