There is a Hindu belief that when humanity slides into decay, threatening us with a return to barbarism, God comes among us as a human, to jump-start us.

Two thousand years ago the Roman Empire ruled western civilization. It improved engineering, administration, even the law, and provided relative peace. But it was corrupt, brutal, and greedy. Thus the infinite soul incarnated, among a semitic people whose monotheism suited them to the needs of humanity and history.

Two thousand years later, it's time for a second coming. But the circumstances and potentials are different: this is the information era, the media age...and the time of the terrorist. Thus instead of a Nazarene carpenter, the vessel of the infinite soul is a black Canadian software genius. And instead of fishermen, shepherds and laborers, he surrounds himself with management mavens, media consultants, security specialists...

And unavoidably enemies, because he doesn't say what the zealots want to hear.
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This is not a harsh story, despite conspiracies, hatred, and violence.

It is rich in characters, beautiful and ugly, described with compassion and humor. And it is largely through them that Dalmas tells this story of love, reluctance, anger...and hope.