On a night train journey through wintery Russia, a long conversation unfolds among changing passengers about love, marriage, morality, and society. Towards the end, the former landowner Posdnyschew recounts to a fellow traveler the tragic course of his marriage and makes a shocking confession: increasingly disappointed and consumed by unfounded jealousy, he took his wife's life. Leo Tolstoy masterfully transforms this authentic story into literature, subtly revealing the inner drama of his characters. At the same time, this significant late work expresses his own social-critical and moral positions.