The "David and Goliath" legend is presented as credibly as possible, while David's later disastrous romance with Bathsheba is handled with taste and decorum. Also in the cast are Anthony Quayle as King Saul, and Terence Hardiman as Bathsheba's unfortunate warrior husband Uriah.

Upon his father's death, a Hungarian stage actor travels to Israel for the funeral and meets his stepmother for the first time.

An ancient prophecy is about to be fulfilled as a secret code brings the world to the edge of apocalypse.