The teenage John Baptist murdered his brother but had no regrets - Ray was evil and had to die. That act cost John eight years in a secure mental institution. Electrotherapy wiped his memory and he was cured.Twenty years later, John has become a respectable, slightly overweight and balding pillar of society with a wife and young family. Then he starts to remember...The Baptist is a psychological thriller, a deceptive view of normality through the lens of a man led by reawakened religious mania and a woman driven by lust.