The film "Habit and Armor" depicts the history of the monastic state and the Commonwealth as a gigantic strategic game in which the various civilizational values ​​compete with each other and the emotions of the actors of history are eroded. The screenplay of the film covers 300 years, from the 12th to the 16th century. The film shows the foundation of the Order of the Blessed Mother of the German House in Palestine, followed by the colonization of the Prussian lands on the Baltic and the construction of the monastic state and its prosperity. It also presents the great war of the law with the Commonwealth in the 15th century, including the Battle of Grunwald (1410). The film ends the liquidation of the monastic state under the Second Toruń Peace (1466) and its inhabitants accede to the Commonwealth in the so- Tribute to Prussia.

Stacy Keach is the narrator of the film.