Helene Friberg

Jenny Isaksson et son mari sont deux brillants psychiatres. Jenny se met un jour à avoir des sentiments et des visions qui l’oppressent. Elle passe petit à petit du statut de médecin à celui de patiente.

About the Swedish author Agnes Von Krusenstjerna during the period of her marriage to David Sprengel. In the hallucinatory opening sequence she is brought in a straitjacket by her husband and two psychiatric nurses through the Venice Carnival nocturnal antics to a mental hospital in the city. With her is a manuscript of her autobiography, which she calls "her child". The book is Agnes showdown with her family, and in flashbacks presented, Agnes progress from the author of innocent girls' books to serious and self-consuming novelist.

Sarastro a enlevé Pamina, la fille de la Reine de la Nuit. Tamino, prince téméraire épris de la princesse, part à sa recherche. Pour le protéger, la Reine de la Nuit lui remet deux talismans : un carillon magique et une flûte enchantée…

The film shows four women moving in a crowded, closed room to the music of Monteverdi. They represent women living by passing on a role that is passed down to them for generations. Two of the dancers are damned souls that come to life, the third is death and the fourth a child born free, but forced into the other female roles.

Dr. Jenny Isaksson is a psychiatrist married to another psychiatrist; both are successful in their jobs but slowly, agonizingly, Jenny succumbs to a breakdown. She is haunted by images and emotions from her past and eventually cannot function as a wife, doctor, or individual.