Anna Karenina

At a glamorous ball in Moscow, Anna Karenina meets Count Alexei Vronsky. He is immediately smitten and begins to pursue her with mounting insistence. The encounter sets in motion a secret passion that unsettles both their lives.

Vronsky travels to St. Petersburg and openly pursues Anna. She succumbs to her feelings and becomes his mistress. Their happiness, however, is shadowed by the fear of scandal.

Anna and Vronsky’s affair deepens, but a miscarriage bruises their happiness. The pain tears at Anna and heightens the scrutiny of society. They try to hold together, yet the bond begins to crumble.

Karenin, under the influence of Countess Lydia Ivanovna, refuses to grant a divorce. He denies Anna access to Seriozha and clings to convention. The couple’s private tragedy becomes a public scandal.

Anna uses her brother as an intermediary to beg for a divorce, but Karenin remains unyielding. The outcome costs her more than she expects, severing her last ties to her son. Her isolation deepens as she confronts a hostile society.

Facing an uncompromising husband, Anna openly leaves Karenin to be with Vronsky. The act shocks society and marks the collapse of her former life. The lovers retreat into an embattled happiness.

Anna bears another child with Vronsky, but he remains torn between love and the lure of a respectable marriage in high society. The new child complicates the relationship and invites further scrutiny. Their private world grows more fragile.

Anna falls into deep depression and begins self-medicating with laudanum. The combination of heartbreak and social condemnation erodes her spirit. She becomes increasingly isolated from those who once supported her.

Believing Vronsky will abandon her for a younger woman, Anna travels to the railway station and throws herself in front of a train. Her death devastates Vronsky and shatters the fragile world around them. The tragedy underscores the destructive pull of love and pride.

Overcome by grief, Vronsky volunteers for a suicide mission in the Balkan War. He seeks meaning through peril as he grapples with Anna’s loss. The campaign becomes a backdrop for his inner turmoil.

On his way to the front, Vronsky encounters Konstantin Levin at a train station. Levin has married Vronsky's former beloved, Princess Kitty Shcherbatskaya, which adds irony to their reunion. Levin tries to steer Vronsky toward a life worth living.

Levin returns to his family and records the events in a manuscript. He signs the document with the name Leo Tolstoy, blurring the lines between fiction and the author’s own life. The story closes on a reflective note about life and meaning.