Noah, a farmer and family man, is told by an angel to construct an ark in the middle of a desert in order to save both his family and the faithful from a catastrophic deluge. A apparently impossible assignment, made all the more difficult by his sons' refusal to believe him and assist him, Noah faces mockery and disgrace from the depraved townspeople, as well as his loving but impatient family, in his quest to fulfill his God-given mission.