From the horrors of a tragic conception, a child is born with a unique gift; the ability to pull pain from one living being and put it into another. The child, Zion Cross, grows-up on the cold streets of Detroit, bouncing from one unstable home to another, struggling to protect his half-sister Charity from the harsh realities of his jaded life. While he desperately attempts to escape his checkered past and create a new life for them, she is more concerned with saving his soul. Are some past lives so horrible God will not forgive them? Even if the person needing forgiveness.has superpowers?.