When you think that you have achieved everything in your profession, it turns out that you do not know anything about what real virtuosos of working with the human soul can. Confessors of the Empire are a closed circle of the elect, on which the power of the state rests, because they are able to make inanimate things alive, moving souls into them. Ranginald van Dir - becomes a student of one of them, thinking that finally a calm and measured time has come to gain new knowledge, but the war will speed up his training, because the girl who is dear to him is in danger.