Accord­ing to Isaac is an imag­i­na­tive retelling of the enig­mat­ic Abraham/​Isaac sto­ry from Gen­e­sis 22, in which God tells Abra­ham to make a burnt offer­ing of the son he loves. In this ver­sion, Isaac is the sto­ry­teller. He is a hap­py, some­what naive, some­what inse­cure, some­what irrev­er­ent thir­teen-year-old who becomes an unknow­ing par­tic­i­pant in this exis­ten­tial dra­ma. As Abra­ham, Isaac, and two slaves trek across the harsh Judean desert, they encounter sev­er­al twists and turns, some life-threat­en­ing, and expe­ri­ence moments of true bond­ing. But it isn’t until the cli­mac­tic moments, when Abra­ham binds Isaac to the altar, that Isaac ful­ly real­izes the fate that awaits him. As they return home, Isaac’s faith in his father and in God has been shak­en. He left his vil­lage a naive boy. He returns home a man. Many years lat­er, he returns to Mori­ah with his own sons and under­stands that it is faith that ulti­mate­ly survives.