The year is 2030, and the most important decision of Damien Driver’s brief tenure as governor of Arizona is to decide whether or not he should stay the execution of a heretical cult leader. Damien’s conservative constituency - and just about everyone else with an opinion - wants the treasonous woman dead. However, the party’s single largest contributor, the Bishop of Phoenix, as well as the prison chaplain plead with the governor for clemency: the bishop citing the Church’s stance against capital punishment; the chaplain believing she is the second coming of Christ. Already convinced that the woman is wholly innocent, Damien searches frantically for a legal loophole to justify a stay of execution only to discover that there are forces at work trying to make the decision for him.