Approached by Helga, the beautiful wife of the ogre-like Pastor Gregorious, Glas must decide whether to protect her from her husband’s unwanted affections by manipulating the pastor’s medical examinations with exhortations to desist from ‘marital relations.’ Glas’s infatuation for Helga draws him further away from his hyppocratic oath towards an extreme shocking ending. Set in Stockholm at the very end of the nineteenth century Hjalmar Soderberg’s classic novella takes a modern outlook at odds with the morality and laws of its time.