An ancient virus is turning animals into people and people into monsters. A cure is on the way, but it is worse than the disease.
A virus from billions of years in the past has survived in ancient salt beds and has re-emerged with devestating results. As the virus turns evolution on its head, people are changed into monsters, animals begin to demand their rights, and civilization is brought to its knees. The few remaining humans seek safety in the quarantine of walled cities such as the Vatican. They desperately seek a cure, but the only one they can find may bring civilization the rest of the way down.
Judeus and Miranda set out with a wolfish priest, a planeload of pilgrims, and a bizarre cat on their own journey from Miami to the Vatican. One wants to teach the Pope how to pray. Another wants to lay siege against the humans. And last, but not least, they want to get the Pope's perspective on whether non-humans should marry.
With their plane shot down over Africa, they learn that strange events are not limited just to the civilized parts of the world.
Is the virus God's punishment on the world? Or is there no god but the virus? Or is the virus going to create a new god? Can three sponge-monsters straighten this mess out?