Madame Bovary is the story of Emma, a beautiful, simple girl in the French countryside, who dreams of a utopian life filled with intense emotions, luxuries, passions, and fiery loves.

However, her marriage to Charles Bovary, who is extremely devoted and gentle but boring for her, will plunge her into the boredom and tedium of a mundane and meaningless life, as defined by the social conventions and conservative ideas of the hypocritical countryside.

Emma will chase the chimera and her fantasies of a great love in individuals who are, however, creations of the world she despises and detests. When the masks fall and she sees the nakedness and the poverty of their souls, she will seek her personal truth.

Relentless as a tragedy, violent as a vision, biting as a comedy, the commonplace theme of infidelity takes on profoundly human dimensions in Flaubert's work. Corrosive and revolutionary, this masterful naturalistic novel brought about a revolution in the writing style of the time, and with its rigid objectivity, it marked the beginning of a new era in literature.