The Laboratory Assistant

In a city teeming with revolution, science and passion offer their own strains of violence.

Petrograd, 1916 When her aristocratic family is left destitute, Mariya grows desperate to survive — and to support her widowed mother and sisters. She finds financial relief in a job with Dr. Nikolas Rodin, a reclusive scientist. While the work makes ends meet, Mariya is soon pulled into the eerie rhythm of the laboratory: a realm of orange gaslights, unsettling experiments, and a man whose genius is...