The last thing that the newly made nuns of the brand new Saint Maria Skobtsova Monastery expected was to have an old enemy of the Abbess' greet them as they left the Monastery Chapel. The man was broken, contrite, dying, and in desperate need of tender care. Then again, as Elder Joseph the Hesychast said, when one is engaged in spiritual warfare, one should not expect that the demons will retaliate with chocolates.

This second volume of the series picks up where "Making Angels Laugh" left off and follows the new nuns of Saint Maria's Monastery in the first week of their common life.