The novel follows political maneuvering among ministers, industrial magnates, and secret lodges as a conservative narrator portrays the moral and social decline of the nation under secular democracy, socialism, and atheist education. Through episodes of corruption, police reports, labor agitation, and family scandals, it traces how traditional institutions—religion, family, hierarchy—are eroded and how youth are drawn into radical movements. The narrative blends polemic and fiction to dramatize perceived threats to social order and concludes by advocating a return to Catholic authority as the remedy.