The countdown to the year 2000 is affecting people in different ways -- some are curious, others anxious, and still others are panicking. What terrible judgment might the new millennium bring? Amid this atmosphere of uncertainty, a quiet solitary man comes again to the tiny town of Auburn. This carpenter, known as Joshua, first arrived nearly two decades earlier and transformed everyone with his words of peace and his actions of love. However, in the years since he left, many of his friends have died and a generation has grown up not knowing him. Now with the new millennium on the horizon, many are consumed with fear.

But Joshua reassures everyone by reminding them of the lessons he left them years earlier. He explains that God is love, not some monster waiting for people to make one false move and then punish them. But when an immense earthquake strikes just before the new year and other "signs of the Apocalypse" seem to abound, Joshua realizes that his wisdom must reach beyond this small town in order to help people throughout the world. He must again leave Auburn to spread his powerful message, bringing peace to all once more.