Sweeter. Zola E.

The wife of the head of the postal station Severin Rubo is tormented by memories of a cunning crime in which she involuntarily became an accomplice in 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 RUBO.

However, trying to seduce Jacques, Severin and 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...