The war is over, and army chaplain Thomas Blago keeps his way home with the remnants of his unit. Once, back in peacetime, he ran a gang and did not forget his skills. But now his criminal empire has collapsed, strangers have seized their native places, and the people of Ellinburg - his cities - are starving, left homeless and hopeful. And then Thomas, along with other battered veterans, decides to return what he lost. By any means. But starting the struggle for the redistribution of power, he falls into a cunning network of political intrigues and realizes that the stakes in the game he has started will be much higher than it seemed at first glance. Indeed, in this world, holiness is not an empty phrase, but behind a thin veil of reality lurks something that even notorious thugs would not want to face in a dark alley.