1980. Michal and Juraj are students at a theological seminary in totalitarian Czechoslovakia. With their school under threat of closure, the tutors are moulding the seminarians to the dictates of the ruling Communist Party. Each of the young students must decide whether to take the easy way out and collaborate with the regime – through the state-sponsored priests’ association Pacem in Terris – or stick to his traditional Catholic beliefs and subject himself to draconian surveillance by the secret police.

“ ...brilliantly crafted, atmospherically enveloping” Guy Lodge, Variety