Six-week old Romolo Di Leo chokes to death and is then resuscitated. In that instant between death and life, something takes hold of his soul. He is reborn and his life is put on a radically new trajectory.
In the next three years of his life, Romolo's parents, Ben and Anna, begin to recognize unusually advanced abilities and talents in their son. He is a musical prodigy and, under the expert tutelage of a once-famous Russian virtuoso, will use his talent and 'new' music to change the hearts of people everywhere and advance the cause of world peace at a time the world needs it most.
Romolo is the story's 'musical messiah' who, by age 9, understands what he has been put (back) on the earth to do. His is the remarkable story of a youngster who, endowed with God-given musical genius, is being 'called' to expunge the self-destructive flaws in the human soul and save humankind from itself. But it will not be easy, because there are dark, human forces lining up to stop him.
"Born Again" takes the reader on a journey into the world of genius and asks essential questions, both about music and about the nature of existence itself. What is music? Why does it affect us as it does? Is it the way God lets Himself into the world? What if one could create the 'perfect music' – a music that is comprised of the harmony and balance inherent in the makeup and movement of the universe -- could you change the cold, dark heart of man? Could you change the world?