The war is over, and army chaplain Thomas Blag is on his way home with the remnants of his squad. Once upon a time, back in peacetime, he ran a gang and did not forget his skills. But now his criminal empire has collapsed, his homeland has been taken over by strangers, and the people of Ellinburg - his city - are starving, left without shelter and hope. And then Thomas, along with other battered veterans, decides to return what he lost. By any means. But having begun the struggle for the redistribution of power, he finds himself in a cunning web of political intrigue and realizes that the stakes in the game he has started will be much higher than it seemed at first glance. After all, in this world, holiness is not an empty phrase, but behind the thin veil of reality lurks something that even notorious thugs would not want to encounter in a dark alley.