In a painting depicting Jesus, just after Pilot has sentenced him to death, each viewer sees himself or herself as a hateful member of the mob crying for Christ's blood. The painting has been hidden for hundreds of years. Now, found by a New York gallery owner, it shakes the few he dares show it to, to their foundations. But this isn't the story of the painting, as much as the twentieth century artist who travels to Germany to piece together the story of the painting.