A 13-year-old girl escapes a forced mar­riage to the brutish son of a local ruler in ancient Israel. A red­head orphan with an uncan­ny mix of intel­li­gence, gulli­bil­i­ty and resolve, she embarks on a quest to find a leg­endary Edomite elixir-mak­er, famed for hav­ing turned women into men. Her goal is to con­vince him to do the same for her. Deb­o­rah’s jour­ney proves increas­ing­ly per­ilous: her life is threat­ened by wild beasts, lust­ful men, unscrupu­lous priests and war­ring Hebrew tribes­men, where­as her unlike­ly allies include lep­ers, slaves, Moabite traders, and a dead tiger. But Deb­o­rah is deter­mined to suc­ceed. As a man, she would not have to endure a mar­riage of servi­tude, but instead become enti­tled to inher­it her dead father’s land and ful­fill her dream of serv­ing as God’s prophet.