Rodion Raskolnikov, a destitute former student in St. Petersburg, conceives a plan to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker for her money. He argues that with the loot he can perform good deeds to counterbalance the crime. But as he executes his plan, he is consumed by a fever of guilt and paranoia. A monumental work on the nature of evil and the possibility of spiritual rebirth, narrated with intense gravitas by George Baker.