It turns out that 2,000 years ago, the Magi got it slightly wrong, and due to a minor astronomical error, they ended up presenting their gifts to the wrong newborn. The child’s name was Brian, and he just happened to be born at the same hour and only one house away from You-Know-Who. Because of this incident, everyone later mistook Brian for the Messiah, and he was too lazy to set his fans straight. However, the adoration of the masses has a downside as well as a upside, and so Brian finds himself, to his dismay, in the role of a desperate religious leader of the People’s Front of Judea, fighting for freedom from the Roman yoke—and in the thick of major trouble with the occupying authorities!…

Grace and Jackson, a young couple, move from New York to Jackson’s old family home in the countryside. Six months after their child is born, the passion fades; the young father spends more and more time working odd jobs away from his family, while Grace languishes at home. The woman’s behavior becomes increasingly strange and unpredictable.