When Takao, a young high school student who dreams of becoming a shoe designer, decides to skip school one day in favor of sketching in a rainy garden, he has no idea how much his life will change when he encounters Yukino. Older, but not much wiser, she seems adrift in the world and despite the difference in their ages they strike up an unusual relationship that continues with random meetings in the same garden on rainy days. But the rainy season...

Amy-Jill Levine, professor of New Testament at the Vanderbilt University Divinity School, examines specific biblical characters and explores how they have been assessed across the centuries by historians and artists, theologians, and worshipers.