When Benjamin Steed and Mary Ann Steed relocate their family to upstate New York in the early 1800's, they unwittingly settle in a town divided along religious lines. After their new hired help turns out to be at the center of the uproar, each member of the Steed family must come to terms with their own beliefs in the face of heavy persecution. Together they struggle to weather the raging controversy surrounding a young man named Joseph Smith.

The Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality it is all part of the scheme of a bitter ensign named Iago.

Erase is a period piece in the fictional world of the 1940's. During World War II a German doctor found a method to predict if an unborn child is going to commit murder at some point in his life. 20 years later, in the 1960's a journalist interviews Dr. Klein and reveals one of the doctor's past cases.