Medea is an intelligent, highly educated woman who gives up on her dreams when she falls for rich businessman Alexei. When the pair have two children, she patiently waits for him to divorce his wife, and as he decides to emigrate from Russia to Israel, she meekly follows him. But when he shuns her for having committed a crime to protect him, her blind love turns into burning rage.

For the sake of her future with the father of her two children, she commits a crime so grave that he withdraws from her. Feeling betrayed she tries to fill the void with sex and religion; but resentment drives her to revenge.