1984年，印第安纳州。斯万普•福特（Andrew Auseon 安德鲁•奥森 饰）躺在树林中睡觉，当他醒来时，发现自己被女友（Jessica Murnane 杰希卡•莫内恩 饰）捆个严严实实。狂躁的女友绝尘而去，留斯万普一个人挣扎呼救。他的霉运并未就此结束，两个少年又对他拳打脚踢。不久，三个光着身子只穿内裤的家伙来到他的面前，一番絮絮叨叨过后，其中一个为斯万普解开绳子。由此，他展开了一段奇异的旅程……
影片于1998年春天在美国俄亥俄州雅典城拍摄，并荣获1999年MicroCineFest电影节最佳短片奖。

Father William Smoortser drops his bible into a toilet at a rest stop just before embarking on a day-long canoe trip, breaking loose all glorious hell.
Father Billy (Steve Little), an eccentric young priest, is forced to take a sabbatical by his superiors when he is discovered telling inappropriate parables to his flock. Billy tracks down his high-school idol Robbie (Robert Longstreet, Pineapple Express, Undertow), who begrudgingly agrees to a canoe trip. On the water, the two men reminisce about Billy's days as the keyboardist in a Christian band and Robbie's as a guitarist for a metal band.
When night approaches, they realize they have lost their way - and that's when things get weird.
Storytelling in all its forms is skewered in 2011's Sundance favorite The Catechism Cataclysm, a divinely bizarre and funny tale that infuses stories within stories until the lines between the Bible, Mark Twain, and campfire tales are hilariously blurred.