Post by bruce on Jun 3, 2011 6:50:44 GMT -5
Robert Thorn, an American diplomat stationed in Italy, is told that his first-born son died soon after birth and to spare the anguish of his still unconscious wife, Katherine, Robert accepts the suggestion of the hospital's Catholic priest, Father Spiletto to secretly adopt another newborn whose mother died in childbirth. Robert and Katherine raise the boy as their own and name him Damien. Robert's career ascends over the course of the next five years. He is named Deputy Ambassador to the United Kingdom, and after the ambassador dies in a bizarre accident, becomes Ambassador and settles into a large estate just outside London. Soon afterward, Robert is approached by Father Brennan, who delivers an eerie warning and seems to know the truth about Damien's birth, that Damien's mother was a Jackal and that he is the son of the devil.