"The Kreutzer Sonata" is a macabre story that involves the murder of a wife by her husband. Pozdnyshev jealously observes the intimacy that emerges between his wife and a violin player. Haunted by 'The Kreutzer sonata' over which they bonded, it plays round and round in Pozdnyshev's head driving him to distraction and to an unquenchable rage.