Sweeter. Zola E.

Emil Zola is the founder of naturalism in literature, the author of the twenty-volume epic “Rugon-Makkara”-“the natural and social history of one family in the era of the second empire”.

The wife of the head of the postal station Severin Rubo is tormented by the memories of a cunning crime in which she involuntarily became the accomplice of her unloved husband. The police never found the guilty, but from now on, family life becomes completely unbearable for a young woman.

It is then that her attention is drawn to the driver of the locomotive Jacques Lantier. He is good, not without charm, differs favorably from comrades in a highly paid profession with a pure and ascetic, almost monastic way of life. It seems to be the direct opposite of the petty, cruel and vile ruby. However, trying to seduce Jacques, Severina does not suspect that he plays with death. After all, Lantier is a maniac trying to restrain the all -consuming thirst to kill beautiful women...