Foreign scholars arrive in Jerusalem with an amazing inquiry: where is the infant King of the Jews whose star has appeared in the sky? These academic skywatchers from eastern regions had sorted the clues and were looking for the long-promised Messiah. But Herod the Great was already proclaimed the King of Judea by the Romans. Academic, political, and religious interests collide in the familiar Christmas story, leading to the presentation of worshipful gifts at a modest house in Bethlehem and a divine warning about Herod's paranoid schemes.