Rational, exacting, and self-controlled theater director, Henrik Vogler, often stays after rehearsal to think and plan. On this day, Anna comes back, ostensibly looking for a bracelet. She is the lead in his new production of Strindberg's A Dream Play. She talks of her hatred for her mother, now dead, an alcoholic actress, who was Vogler's star and lover.

• Personafilm
• Cinematograph AB
• Erland Josephson
• Ingrid Thulin
• Lena Olin
• Nadja Palmstjerna-Weiss
• Bertil Guve