"The Idiot," Prince Myshkin, who suffers from epilepsy, returns to Russia after many years of absence. In Saint Petersburg, his innocence is scorned and mocked. However, he responds to everyone with kindness. When he suddenly inherits a large fortune, he becomes the center of social interest. For everyone, the prince's good nature is incomprehensible and evokes conflicting emotions. When he finds himself in the whirlpool of human passions, disdain, greed, love, and jealousy, he responds with selflessness, love, and self-sacrifice.

An autobiographical novel, written by Dostoevsky entirely in Europe, far from Russia, during a time of despair, great poverty, and longing for his homeland. With epileptic seizures tormenting him and personal existential anxieties troubling him, "The Idiot" is born, a novel that, as the author himself noted, "relates to the depiction of a truly good and positive person." "The Idiot" is the image of a society that seems to want to exorcise evil and seek good.