Jude the son of God (well one of the sons anyway) is trapped in Purgatory Thankfully he has friends on the outside Nettie a Victorian woman with unknown powers; her daughter Essie commander of an army of unbaptized children; & the late great Ernest Hemingway On their journey to break Jude out of his interminable imprisonment they run afoul of clockwork angels celestial bureaucrats & the Great Potato Himself Can they overcome the very powers that be in order to free their friend & rewrite the system of the afterlife?