Wardlin Stewart is an American messiah. They say he has a permanent hotline with God. If this is true, it is unlikely that you have ever had to pray to such a deity. It all started when Wardlin accidentally killed a man in a drunken brawl. Sentenced to ten years in prison, he begins to write prose poems, a kind of prayer addressed to some abstract deity. He doesn't ask for miracles, but just small favors - for himself and his fellow prisoners. And to his amazement, the prayers do not remain unanswered. He finds and marries a pen pal, publishes a collection of instructions on how to bend the world to his advantage, entitled The New American Prayer Book, and emerges from prison a national celebrity. The book becomes a bestseller, and the hosts of the most popular talk shows compete for the right to call Wardlin on prime time. However, every success has its downside, and now the fundamentalist televangelist, who accused Vardlin of all mortal sins on air, is ready to take the most extreme measures... For the first time in Russian.