This book is a story about the difficult destinies of extraordinary, bright and well-known people who are united by one thing: they (some of their own free will, some against it) dedicated their lives to serving God. They are priests, monks and nuns. Their whole life, all their aspirations should be dedicated to God. Is there any place left for earthly love? And could she be? And if there was, then didn’t it become a crime against the vows taken? For some of the heroes of the book, the monastery walls became salvation from disastrous passion. For some, passion turned out to be higher than the desire to live righteously and sinlessly. And someone deliberately abandoned worldly happiness in the name of high spiritual ideals...