Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov is a penniless student, aged twenty-three years. Lack of money, he had to abandon his studies and lives in a seedy neighborhood of St. Petersburg. Plagued by poverty, he isolates himself from the rest of the world. So he sells his last good watch his father, a usurer, an idea comes to mind: murder is morally tolerable if it leads to an improvement of the human condition? He decided to assassinate the usurer for some time, but his plan does not go as planned and he commits a double murder. Remorse and guilt, he realizes he can not be forgiven and he will never be...