Tess from the D’Erberville clan. Gardi T.

Love and crime bizarrely intertwined in the fate of the young Tess, a poor heiress of an ancient kind, doomed to the role of a keeper - and ready to turn this fate at the cost of their own life! Having become a victim of a rich prisoner, she protests against rude encroachment on human dignity and is forced to commit a murder. “A deceived honest person is often very cruel when a veil falls from his eyes.”

a classic novel about passion, tragedy and loss, which today has become legendary thanks to the film Roman Polanski.