In the garden of a Benedictine monastery, the narrator meets a mysterious monk in a wheelchair who tells him that during the restoration of the Sistine Chapel, a mysterious cipher was discovered—an anagram of the name of the famous Kabbalist Abulafia—written by Michelangelo on the frescoes. In the archives, they find a letter from the artist in which he writes that this inscription undermines the foundations of the Christian church. Cardinal Eilenek begins his own investigation—and a chain of strange and terrible events leads him to the terrible truth… During the investigation, the cardinal is threatened by a certain organization close to the circles of the church and the financial world. It becomes known that after the Second World War, the Catholic Church helped some Nazis hide—and in exchange received money and papers confirming this terrible secret. Is it really true that Jesus rose from the dead?