Writer and director Ingmar Berman displays his magnificent storytelling ability in this spellbinding psychodrama. Liv Ullmann plays a Swedish psychiatrist who has a perfect life on the outside-a successful career, a loving marriage, and a great family-butterrible memories come to the surface when her husband and daughter take a short vacation. Staying in her grandparents' home, she comes face-to-face with herself, breaking down as memories haunt her. Aino Taube-Henrikson and Gunnar Bjrnstrand make appearances as the grandparents, while Erland Josephson costars in an adulterous encounter while the family is away.
