Crime and Punishment

Rodion Raskolnikov lives in squalor in St. Petersburg and believes that extraordinary men are above ordinary moral laws. To prove his theory and solve his financial woes, he brutally murders an unscrupulous old pawnbroker and her sister. He is immediately consumed by intense paranoia, fever, and a crushing sense of isolation that alienates him from his family and friends. A clever investigator plays a psychological game of cat-and-mouse with him, while a pious, impoverished young woman named Sonya offers him a path to spiritual redemption. Raskolnikov finally confesses his crime and is exiled to Siberia, where he begins a painful process of moral rebirth.