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The year is 1986 but in some places, it is as if time has stood still. At St. Theodora’s College in Poland, hand-picked students experience a place of academic excellence, pressure to perform, intense curriculums, as well as antique ideals and vestiges of old.
The official story, the facade that everyone upholds to the outside world, is that the school is a conservative college focused on personal development and academia, perfect for the children of powerful families. It teaches that it is through dedicated excellence that the enrolled students shape their future and their path ahead. The students are encouraged to engage in philosophy and ancient literature, in Latin and Greek, in architecture and art. They are also encouraged to have close and personal relations with the eccentric professors, hand-picked by the college board for their original and thought-provoking teaching methods. Only through these connections can the students find themselves and find a place in a world that has been placed at their feet.
But, there is another part of the college that no one speaks about in the open. The forbidden story, the one that everyone knows about but everyone keeps secret and hidden from the outside world, is a very different one.
St. Theodora’s College has always accepted exceptional students, regardless of if the rest of the world agreed with the College’s choices. Behind its walls, the rules are different, an existence kept from the outside world and its expectations. To attend the College is to have four years where students can find themselves and decide who they truly wish to be, no matter what the world outside dictates. Identities, sexualities and true passions are explored, hidden from the judging eyes of the world.
Every student and every professor at the college are also tied by invisible strings, both to each other and to the secretive organizations that unite them. Tight-knit mentor groups explore their own romances, friendships, limitations and potential together with their mentor professor or older students, creating life-long connections that will aid them going forward. Even more elusive are the societies, the secret groups that tie everyone together. Some are occult or spiritual, other historical or even decadently libertine in nature.
St. Theodora’s College is a place of contrasts, where students can strive to reach their potential, and make friendships for life, while also coming to terms with the darkness of reality both inside and outside the College’s sacred walls.