This exciting, short ethnographic film takes us into a unique subculture of tattooed--and tattooing--Eastern Orthodox Christians in the United States. Members of this group 'ink' themselves with iconographic images, phrases, and religious symbols that are spiritually significant to them. The dilemmas posed by hybrid identity, characteristic of many Americans living in today's dynamic culture, is illustrated by the movement between the subcultures of tattooed Americans and Orthodox Christian Americans. Through in-depth interviews with Orthodox Christian laity, clergy, and a tattoo artist-turned-iconographer, the connection between culture and religion, and body art and identity is explored--all set in a rich visual landscape of skin, ink, needles, and icons--both illustrated and living.