Three radical environmentalists look to execute the protest of their lives: the explosion of a hydroelectric dam.

Disenchanted by the church and his devout Christian mother, 19 year-old Donald escapes Texas for the liberal Northwest and attends Reed College at the urging of his secular father. At Reed College, Don finds that his classmates, from all walks of life, are more anti-religious and anti-everything than he was prepared for. In an attempt to fit in, and more importantly, in an attempt to find himself, Don joins an activist group which forces him to question what he really believes in.

Andre James, an African-American priest with a troubled past, returns to his old Catholic boarding school to replace another priest who has disappeared, but when he begins to suspect that the priest he replaced may have been murdered by someone at the school, he embarks on a quest to discover the truth, only to uncover a darker secret as he is forced to confront his own dark past.