The action of the black and white (sensational, breathtaking pictures by Yuri Chlpik) of the film takes place in a monastery where two young seminarians arrive. Their innocence and idealism will be put to an unexpected test as they find themselves in the middle of a power game between state and church. Servants are a grand treaty about institutions that, no matter whom they serve, are always ready to lay an individual on the altar of their long duration.