Into an austere community of Christian believers come a star-crossed Romeo and Juliet. In the world of Jesus Boy, Romeo is 16-year-old Elwyn Parker, a devout and sincere piano prodigy who soon learns that the saintly girl he has a crush on is pregnant and due to wed another. Juliet is a beautiful widow, Sister Morrisohn, aged 42, who ends up in the arms of Elwyn. Despite the problems posed by their age difference and strict religious beliefs, Elwyn and Sister Morrisohn share a true love. Jesus Boy is a powerful work exposing with wit and poignancy the dark secrets of the pious.