Angus (Frank Rautenbach), a Scotsman born in Africa, leaves his farm in Zambia due to poor yield and escalating violence. His fiery temper ensures that he burns bridges, thanks to his penchant for escalating petty disputes into full-fledged fistfights. With three children and pregnant wife Jill (Jeanne Wilhelm), Angus buys a plot of land in South Africa and builds a life out of nothing.   

"God will give us a farm," says Jill, as she sets up house in the one-room trailer she names Shalom. Angus just snorts. He doesn't believe in anything but the toil of his own hands, as he wrests crops from the earth and slathers mud on the walls of the shack his large family will soon call home. Angus was born to work, but that work is driving him to an early grave.

As Angus's farm grows, so does his workload—and so does his anger. He flies off the handle at a moment's notice. Jill suggests anxiety medication, but deep down Angus knows that his rage is a spiritual, not biochemical, problem. When Jill manages to drag Angus kicking and screaming to church, he receives the shock of his life when the sermon leads him to give himself and his family to Christ.

When a chance fire threatens to spread to a nearby farm, Angus challenges his Zulu farmhand Simeon Bhengu (Hamilton Dlamini) to pray with him for rain.  Simeon scoffs, because it's not yet the rainy season—until the clouds gather, and the raindrops fall, and the fire is utterly extinguished.  Out of the ashes Angus hatches a plan to launch a revival for farmers, black and white, to take place in South Africa's biggest stadium.

Angus tells his wife that he's been called to be foolish for Christ, and every seemingly ridiculous choice he makes yields a miracle pointing back to the glory of God. Not that Angus's life post-conversion is without trials and tragedies...