A strange gift is possessed by the adopted children of Samuel the Baptist from the deaf village of Shaflyary in the Lower Tatras .. They are thieves, but they do not cut off the purses of the onlookers, but steal secret thoughts, aspirations, skills and knowledge. Well settled in the life of the “stepchildren of the eighth commandment”: Jan is an abbot in the monastery of the Benedictines in Tinets, and soon he will be Bishop Teresa the wife of a rich merchant Mr. Michal a voivode in the count’s castle, such nobles in the turbulent XVII century on a whim. But with the baby, with Martha, did not get along . In a century and a half, St. Martha will remember in his prayers the Gypsies Druts, a descendant of a little funny Gypsy girl from the “Eighth Commandment Shepherds”. And a new parable will begin about unrepentant, supervised, hard-working “magicians in the law” ..