John lives a simple life in the beach condo his parents left him, with plenty of money to do whatever he wants. The problem is, John doesn't know what he wants and his life is going nowhere. His two best friends aren't helping matters. Stanley is an alcoholic who sleeps in his bathtub and Mike has nothing better to do than try to satisfy his basic urges. John's cat, Geronimo, the last present his parents gave him before their untimely deaths, is the only one he feels he can confide in. But John's life is about to take a drastic turn. He begins having dreams of a seven-headed dragon rising up from the fiery pits of hell. Soon after, the infamous angel, Michael, charges him with a mission. He is to write a new text to help prepare the world for the second coming, the only problem with that is, John has to give up everything in order to fulfill his mission, including Maggie, the girl he just met who might be the one. John doesn't have that much faith or ambition. But when Geronimo tragically dies, Maggie leaves him, and he splits from his friends, John feels he has nothing left to lose. Michael leads him to a cave in Avila where he is ordered to write until the book is finished. But one there, John finds it is more than he bargained for. The second coming isn't what he thought it was and it isn't Michael who is going to dictate the new text to him. It is someone, or something, much more frightening.