As it is written, "God created the heavens and the earth." So have we ever thought what it was like before Him? What did He see when He first became aware? What was there to see or touch? What was there to feel?

All I can imagine is that it made Him sad, and He cried.

The Will of Man attempts to touch on these questions and the "what if" idea that an actual tear of God ended up on Earth as the planet was being formed.

Although this story begins hundreds of millions of years later, it centers around a fossilized, ancient stone tablet that predates mankind. On it is a language so old that the foremost expert on ancient languages, Father Bartelli, is brought in to translate it.

On his deathbed, though, he must call on two men he raised as orphans-Father Rik and John-to continue his work. They know nothing about ancient languages and lose most of the research on the first day in a fire. Yet they are able to follow clues their mentor had left for them and become quite a challenge for Mandor, who only wants the tablet to destroy the free will of all mankind.

The two men are soon drugged and kidnapped, eventually ending up somewhere on the shores of the Dead Sea, where they meet a boy, Davish. He has become one with the tear and makes an almost instant connection with Father Rik before he is then kidnapped.

Father Rik and John must then form an unusual alliance to rescue Davish and crush Mandor's dream of complete control.