Logline:

Christ throws a party from his home in the San Fernando Valley only to discover Buddha's kid - Rahula the Rapmaster - is being hunted by the mob.

Synopsis:

A Metaphysical Tale of Redemption


At one of his occasional get-togethers, Jesus Christ is drinking beer and playing cards with his friends Abraham, Mary Magdalene, Muhammad, Joanie d’Arc and a leper. A sharp rapping at the front door introduces Frankie Figger – the mob guy. He's demanding the ten large that Rahula the Rapmaster - Buddha's kid – owes his organization. This guy’s serious.

Attempting to help out his errant child, Buddha challenges Frankie to a grueling, metaphysical ping-pong game ("The bouncing of the ball, a bubble in a stream, a flash of lightning in a summer cloud...") Meanwhile, Rahula tries to work up the courage to take responsibility for the weirdness he’s gotten himself involved in: “Frankie’s guys got us rooms, drugs, some coin…lots of strange johns out there, I tell ya’.” He shares this with Lulu, one of the members of his band Roxy Monoxide and The Floating Corpses, as they smoke cigarettes, drink cheap wine and fall in love.


And love is in the air as Muhammad hits on Joanie, Joanie walks the other side of the street with a couple of hot party girls and Mary falls for Frankie.

Frankie can't quite get a handle on what kind of gathering this is, who these people are, and why it’s all having such an affect on him: “A bubble in the stream? Screw this, I need a drink.”

Eventually, a really bad guy - The Very Reverend Jerry Falgood - crashes the party, bent on ushering a few souls to his version of hell. Amidst the physical and existential conflict, Frankie is forced to make a major life decision, and Christ must confront ''the graves we cannot see'' of closed minds.


A few guns, a few jokes, a resurrection and a call to action: ''Who’s for dessert?''


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