In a little town in the middle of America a group that includes writers, artists, teachers, housewives, and businessmen who are actively seeking a new way to express their spiritual needs, have, almost by accident, gathered in a Gazebo built by one of their group to explore and experiment, with music, art, and theater, and intense living. Led by a renegade monk who works as a reporter for the newspaper owned by the Christopherson brothers, the group slowly after many, sometimes painful adventures, hit upon rites, reasons, and rituals that begins to satisfy them. This is a story that begins the adventure of how a whole country changes step by step from one major religious influence to another. From Orthodoxy to universality. From Christianity to Buddhism.