Gio Petré

Trapped in a loveless marriage with an antiques dealer, Siv finds solace in a series of erotic encounters before uncovering her husband’s dark secret.

Mai Zetterling’s feature debut weaves together the lives of three women, each reflecting on their personal and sexual lives as they arrive at a maternity ward in the summer of 1914. Through flashbacks, fragments of their lives and loves are retold – incestuous love, masochistic love, lesbian love, destructive love. The film caused some upset at Cannes but received overwhelmingly positive reviews.