The setting is a small island on the Adriatic Sea, the action period is the last twenty centuries. The stories of the inhabitants of the Roman villa, where the case of an unexpected theft is being investigated, are intertwined with the stories of completely different people who will live in these parts at different times. And the main character is Christianity in all its diversity of forms, with its complex and sometimes ambiguous history... The author of the book, Andrei Desnitsky, is a famous Russian philologist, Bible specialist, Doctor of Science and Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences.