In the 1100s, people undertake the construction of a gargantuan cathedral in an English town. Tom Builder is tasked with the seemingly impossible responsibility of seeing the project to its completion. During the construction of the cathedral, the people in the village change, beginning a conflict between church and state that will pit brother against brother in an epic battle of good against evil. Constantly, the cathedral looms in the background, its completion the sole goal of those who support it, its destruction the ideal of those who see it as a representation of all that is wrong with the Church.