For more than two thousand years, an ancient chest in Israel has been passed down from generation to generation in the Kohath family. And during that same time, a violent, evil power has been creeping around trying to destroy it. Now the chest is in Raphael Town, USA, and so is the evil power! Fourteen-year-old Nolan Tobeluka and his younger brother, Grant, are having a fun summer with Nolan's best friend, Abraham Kohath, and Abraham's younger sister, Aliza, until disaster strikes. Abraham and Aliza worry that the chest their papa brought back from Israel is cursed and the reason bad things are happening to their family, causing their parents to contemplate moving far away. Unhappy that his best friend and his family may be forced to leave their home, Nolan, with help from Grant, Abraham, and Aliza, creates a plan and hopes it'll work. But Nolan doesn't realize the power of the malicious monster he's up against! It will take all his strength, and the help of friends old and new, to fight this raging, evil force.