12 Jewish members of an international trading partnership from Sicily to India are present in Jerusalem for Passover and ¿ nd themselves at Jesus' cruci¿xion and resurrection. Preparing for an additional trading mission Jacobus meets the Apostle Thomas in front of a Synagogue in Alexandria, Egypt and offers to take him to India on his ship. Decades later, Jacobus decides to return home to Sicily on his pet elephant. Reaching Jerusalem a year later, he arrives on a hill overlooking Jerusalem only to ¿ nd the city totally destroyed, with thousands of bodies piled up around the destroyed city walls with hundreds of dead and dying victims of Roman cruci¿xion all along the roads.