Raskolnikov, un estudiante pobre, asesina y roba a una vieja avara y considera que su crimen está justificado porque la considera un parásito de la sociedad. Al principio consigue eludir las sospechas de la policía, pero no el tormento que le causa su aislamiento y su sentimiento de culpa.

Raskolnikov, a poor student, murders and robs a greedy old woman and thinks her crime to be justified because he considers her a parasite of society. At first he manages to elude the suspicions of the police, but not the torment caused by his isolation and his feeling of guilt.