Madame Bovary

Charles and Emma Bovary marry but their marriage is an unhappy one.

Emma and Charles move to a village named Yonville where Emma becomes attracted to law student Leon Dupuis.

Emma has a passionate affair with a patient of her husband but it ends with her getting unceremoniously dumped.

Having mortgaged her husband's estate with her extravagant spending, Emma becomes desperate for money to pay her debts.