Film's Description

The heroes of this film are Anna Ivanovna Abrikosova, from a prosperous merchant's family, and her husband converted to Roman Catholicism after visiting Italy. With a blessing from Pope Pius X, they founded a Russian Catholic Parish of Eastern Rite in Moscow, early in the 20th century.

Anna Ivanovna felt the calling of the nunnery, and established a woman's dominican community attached to the parish. Their main goal was to revive Russian spirituality through unification with the Catholic Church. Amidst the bloody turmoil of the Bolshevik revolution, the Civil War, and the arrests and executions without trial. Anna Ivanovna and her sisters vowed to sacrifice their lives for the sake of Russia's conversion and salvation. The time of trials came sooner than many expected.

Arrested without any kind of evidence, members of the Abrikosovs' Community spent many years in prison and exile, and most of them, faithful to their sacrificial vow, were martyred.The unique sources used in the film - Anna Abrikosova's diaries and the memoirs of the sisters from her community and from other prisoners - allowed us to trace not only the external course of the events, but also the spiritual path of this self-sacrificing woman.