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A decade ago a medical student and a steelworker become penfriends when they chance upon the same copy of Leo Tolstoys Resurrection Off the page passion and hatred mingle and two murders are committed and the two friends part ways A young police officer starts to investigate but in vain A decade later the young graduate student has become a renowned doctor and has married his sweetheart The steelworker returns to the city bringing with him his handicapped girlfriend Meanwhile the police officer cant shake off the unsolved mystery of the murder cases The last ten years have brought with them great change each of the characters falling deeper into webs of vice and desire They must choose the path to salvation or the road to hell