Jim Leonard Junior’s earthy, funny, poignant and profoundly tragic play has echoes of Steinbeck’s classic depression era work.
   During the 1930s, when both water and faith were in short supply, C.C. Showers (actor Dean Berry) wanders into the mythical town of Zion, a small, rural town in southern Indiana along the river.
     Basically a village of farmers, neighbors often call on the boy Buddy Layman to find underground water sources for them to tap for wells. Buddy (sophomore Z McCann) has had the gift of divining (water-witching) since an accident by the river as a toddler left him with a drown mother, the mental capacity of a 3 year-old, and an extreme phobia of all forms of water.
     The two outcasts find a common bond and help each other search for truth, faith and hope. CC patiently earns Buddy's trust and convinces him to not be afraid of water. The townspeople, though, want CC to take up the Bible again and become the town minister even though he had told them he won't. Their assumption that Buddy is being "baptized" when they find them in the river together ultimately leads to Buddy's death as he slips in the river and drowns while CC is getting rid of the spectators.