Corin Roscoe, an antiques dealer, is given a mysterious chair by a woman who claims it was made by Jesus Christ. Corin is skeptical at first, but after a boy suffering from asthma sits in it and seems to be miraculously cured Corin has second thoughts. Then more people learn about the chair, and Corin learns that it has a history he didn't know about, and that powerful forces are at work to get their hands on it and its power.