Description

About the wind-swept plains of northwestern China, Mongol bandits jump down upon an American missionary couple and grab their little kid. The Reverend sets out looking for the child and becomes lost in the tough, damaged country filled by opium dens, touring circuses and sly nomadic warlords. This erect Midwestern reverend grows a following one of the Chinese peasants and is christened Cat Guy for what they understand are his otherworldly forces. Where thoughts of her compromised misplaced spouse and child start to beckon to her from over the plains, grace, his small ingénue wife, pregnant using their second child, requires to her sick bed in the mission element.