The familiar rhythms of the little church community in this sleepy southern town are thrown into chaotic disarray when their preacher the Reverend Milton T. Bagston takes a dive in more ways than one. Folk are jolted out of spiritual sleep forced by circumstances to accept the aid of the disreputable: Luther Huckleberry and his sister Millie spiritual criminologist Viola Trumpett and Creek shaman Henry Wide Bear in saving their church from physical and spiritual ruin.