Inside a Mississippi Catholic church whose roof got torn off by a hurricane, con artist Ezra Voss sets up his phone to stream fake exorcisms. He scams dark web viewers out of Bitcoin using holy water mixed with fluorescent powder and forged Latin scripture.
Dolores, the third Mexican-American girl he hired as an actor, overdoses and stops breathing. Panicked, he presses his palm to her forehead — and she suddenly sits upright, whispering:
“The river doesn’t taste the same anymore.”
Within 48 hours, the clip blows up worldwide, hitting over 200 million views. The FBI adds Ezra to its watchlist of potential cult leaders. The Vatican’s Congregation for the Examination of Faith sends Sister Ana, their special investigator, on a flight bound for New Orleans.
Meanwhile, deep inside the Vatican’s underground archives, all records tied to the U.S. Navy’s 1943 Philadelphia Experiment are being systematically erased.
A con man, a nun, lost documents, and a river that has changed. All draw closer together amid the humid Southern nights.
