Set on a beautiful Sunday in the Louisiana delta, near New Orleans, where a black Baptist preacher, Mr. Deshee (George Reed), conducts a Sunday school class for the black children and recreates the Genesis story so the children can grasp it in modern terms. De Lawd Jehovah (Rex Ingram, the first African-American to receive the Phi Beta Kappa key at Northwestern University, who became an actor instead of a medical doctor) is introduced during a fish fry picnic for the heavenly angels by the angel Gabriel (Oscar Polk) and the choir sings gospel songs upon De Lawd’s request. De Lawd creates too much firmament as he performs a miracle and so creates the sun and earth to remove it. But that leaves a good tract of farmland, and so he creates Adam and Eve to enjoy it. But they are given the boot from the Garden of Eden after eating the forbidden fruit. Much later when visiting Adam and Eve’s descendents De Lawd is sad to find that Caine killed his brother Abel. On a later visit, Jehovah finds that the descendents are all sinners but for Preacher Noah (Eddie “Rochester” Anderson). Noah is ordered by Jehovah to build an ark to escape with the animals because of the impending flood. De Lawd returns after the deluge to again find the world filled with sin.