Morphine

A bleak, introspective portrait of a young doctor's moral and psychological unraveling amid the suffering of war and rural isolation, told with literary precision and deep melancholy.

The year is 1917. We are in the Russian countryside. It is the middle of freezing winter. A pale young, newly educated doctor arrives. Having to deal with one medical challenge after another he soon becomes the center of everyone's attention. To soothe the impressions of human suffering he turns to morphine.