‘Ivan the Terrible is waiting for the End of the World. In the pride of autocracy, he imagines himself as the savior of the people, the Christ of the Second Coming, and establishes the oprichnina - the order for the defense of the faith. If the people believe in the tsar as in God, the tsar will become a miracle worker. With a wave of his hand, he will plunge all enemies into dust and cover the earth with fat fields. You just need to make the people believe in the tsar. Make it by force - the terror of the oprichnina. But the Solovetsky abbot Philip, a simple and clear man, cannot serve the tsar as a god. And then the eyes stare into the eyes, and the cross rises against the swing of the ax.