在一次核电厂泄露事故中，雷文镇的孩子们在放学路上遭遇了一场毒气的洗礼，全都变成了僵尸一样的魔鬼。他们的家人以为孩子孩子只是失踪了，当他们看到孩子回家的时候，都给他们深情的拥抱，谁知这个拥抱竟然是致命的......

一个退休的美国中情局探员麦特亨特，将要制止的是整个美国免于受俄罗斯恐怖份子的威胁，当恐怖份子入侵佛罗里达州并想接管这个国家时，在市区社区和郊区购物中心点燃战火且惊慌四起，造成数以千计的人丧生其中，亨特誓要孤身消灭这些恐怖分子！

The play consists of four parts, with a monologue making up each part. The monologues are given, in order, by the faith healer, Francis (Frank) Hardy himself; his wife, Grace; his cockney manager, Teddy, and finally Hardy again.
The monologues tell the story of the faith healer himself, including an incident in a Welsh village in which he cures ten people. Teddy's monologue reveals that Grace Hardy commits suicide, while Frank ponders whether his gift is for real or not. In Frank's second monologue, it is suggested that he is killed near his home after being unable to heal a cripple. He says that he knows he will not be able to heal him and, going to face death, he feels a sense of homecoming. It is not made explicitly clear however, that Frank is actually killed; Friel leaves this up to the reader's interpretation.
The fact that the play does not end definitively typifies a main point of the play; each character gives a different recollection of the same events throughout the page.