Feature Film: Child of the Shroud, by David Young and Lana White

Title of Story: Child of the Shroud

Written by: David Young and Lana White

Logline: When an ambitious scientist inserts DNA from The Shroud of Turin into the fertilized egg of an unsuspecting childless couple, they give birth to a child who may be Christ reincarnated and struggle to keep him safe from powerful people who would take him from them and use him to
their own advantages.

Synopsis: Ron Fitzgerald is part of a team of scientists that studies the
Shroud of Turin in Italy in the 1970s. He later breaks with his
colleagues over the Shroud’s authenticity. Determined to prove
that the Shroud is indeed the real thing, he steals a *sample of
the cloth for carbon dating analysis and returns to the States.
With the help of his friend and mentor, Chicago biogenetic researcher and fertility lab director Joseph King, DNA is taken from the Shroud that…