V volshebnuyu pashalnuyu noch, kogda, po predaniyu, vsyo zamiraet i dazhe samye strashnye prestupniki mogut poluchit proschenie, proishodit chudo. Sam Hristos spuskaetsya na zemlyu, chtoby posetit tyurmu i dat shans samym otyavlennym greshnikam. On predlagaet im rasskazat o samom strashnom svoyom zlodeyanii, obeschaya proschenie za iskrennee raskayanie.
Eta pritcha ne prosto pashalnaya istoriya, eto vopros k chitatelyu: chto strashnee sovershit zlo ili polyubit ego, poteryav sovest i sposobnost raskayatsya? Gotovy li lyudi k istinnomu proscheniyu?