From the euphoria of the Roaring Twenties, through the perilous decade of the Great Depression, into the cataclysm of global war, the members of the Lutheran Church of St. Michael and All Angels see their "living room fellowship" explode into a dominant metropolitan faith community. A charismatic pastor struggles to balance ambition with humility, as his surging faith community confronts issues of greed and poverty, success and suicide, lust and fidelity, faith and forgiveness.