Anna Karenina (Bloom), the young wife of Russian diplomat Alexis Karenin, is on a mission of mercy to help her brother patch things up with his wife after an injudicious affair, when she meets the dashing officer, Count Alexis Vronsky (Connery). Anna is soon swept off her feet by Vronsky and beings an affair of her own. When Karenin finds out, he offers to forgive Anna if she will leave Vronsky, but she refuses, a decision which will have tragic consequences.