In late 19th-century Russian high society, Anna Karenina, a beautiful, aristocratic, married woman, meets the dashing cavalry officer Count Vronsky at a train station in Moscow, where she has arrived to help salvage the marriage of her brother, Prince Oblonsky, and his wife, Dolly. Despite her own comfortable and reputable position in society as the wife of government official Alexei Karenin, Anna is immediately attracted to Vronsky. Their chemistry is palpable, and an affair between the two seems inevitable. As their paths cross at various social events, the tension between them mounts, setting the stage for a passionate and tumultuous relationship.

The illicit affair launches both Anna and Vronsky into a whirlwind of desire and peril. Anna, torn between her duty to her husband and son and her uncontrollable emotions for Vronsky, faces scorn and judgment from society. Her husband, Alexei, offers her a semblance of normalcy and respectability, but at the cost of suppressing her newfound passion. As Anna wrestles with her choices, the consequences of her actions ripple through her family, friends, and the Russian elite, revealing the intricate web of relationships and social conventions that both ensnare and define the characters. The love affair challenges the very fabric of their existence, questioning notions of love, loyalty, and freedom in a rigid and unforgiving social hierarchy.