A '70's draft dodger seeking an idyllic war-free life finds no safe haven in Old Time Religion. Should this rebel's asylum be Hell? True story.
Jim, an eighteen year old farm-hand, is forced to make the most important decision in his life. If he stays on the farm, he’ll be drafted into the Vietnam War. To avoid the draft, he can enroll into college, but rejects both alternatives as arranged marriages. Unexpectedly fired, he takes it as a sign to hit the road. Hitchhiking out of his small town, he is optimistic about what life has to offer, but leaving means losing the family he loves.
He meets a beautiful girl who lives in a commune of unorthodox Christians holed up in an abandoned hotel. He falls in love with Tabitha and finds her cohorts are kindred soul-mates who’ve refused to go down with the system’s shipwreck. He joins their mutiny from the world to take on a spiritual life.
Life is good—he marries and fathers a child. At first an egalitarian’s dream, he suspects his compatriots’ mission is being hijacked by their prophet, a self-styled guru, who’s errant genius and predatory sexuality forces the group’s attractive women into using sex to lure new members and swell the ranks with children.
Paradise is lost and Jim wants out, but it can cost him his soul.