ACT 1

The Israelites are oppressed and downtrodden, yet surviving on the hope of freedom. Their captors are utterly cruel – led by a tyrannical Pharaoh, his tyranny fuelled much by his fear of the strength in spirit of the Israelites. Pharaoh attempts to crush the spirit of the enslaved Israelites by ordering the murder of every newborn Israelite boy. A desperate Israelite mother tries to save her baby boy (Moses) from death by placing him in a sealed basket and placing that basket beside the gently flowing River Nile. The basket carrying Moses is discovered by a member of Pharaoh’s family and Moses is introduced into Pharaoh’s home. He is raised as Pharaoh’s adopted son alongside Pharaoh’s son by birth (Rameses) who, after Pharaoh’s death, will one day rule Egypt in his place. The relationship between the young Moses and young Rameses is tender and close as they grow together but Moses eventually discovery that he is not Egyptian. In his search for his true identity Moses begins to empathize with the suffering Israelites. But acting in haste on behalf of his newly found “people,” Moses kills one of the Egyptian guards and is forced to flee from Egypt to avoid the consequences of his actions. On his journey away from Egypt to Midian, Moses finds love and forgiveness in a wife.

ACT 2

Back in Egypt, despite the death of Pharaoh and his succession by Rameses, the oppression of the Israelites continues. Forty years after leaving Egypt, Moses encounters the God of the Israelites and, as a result of that encounter, discovers his true identity and the purpose of his life - to return to Egypt and deliver the Israelites to freedom. And so he sets off to confront Rameses, the man he once called brother, and demand of him that he let his people go.