Crime and Punishment

“To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.” Rodion Raskolnikov is a deeply troubled, impoverished student living in the bowels of Saint Petersburg. He is in immediate need of money, and in his desperation he hatches an ugly plan: to murder a wealthy pawnbroker and steal her money, convincing himself that he will use it to elevate himself in society and accomplish great deeds. But once the terrible deed is done, Raskolnikov is immediately stricken with guilt and self-loathing, and struggles to reconcile his sense of moral superiority with his warring conscience. And all the while, a noose is slowly being slipped around his neck as the shrewd detective Porfiry Petrovich is closing on him…