CRIMEN Y CASTIGO

Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St. Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself as a great man, a Napoleon: acting with a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But when he embarks on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious police investigator, Raskolnikov is haunted by the rising voice of his conscience and discovers that the knot of his own guilt is tightening around his neck. Only Sonya, an oppressed prostitute, can offer the possibility of redemption.