Lena Endre and Erland Josephson star. In Swedish with English subtitles. A nybody who has ever written a story knows the moment. You're sitting there in the room and the blankness of the page before you is becoming more intimidating. But suddenly you are not alone.
Someone begins to whisper, and in the voice is hypnotism, liberation, energy, even truth.
The Greeks called it the Muse. We call it the subconscious. In this film, the man in the room is a retired director who now only writes. The character who comes to the writer in his despair is Marianne, played by the exceedingly handsome Lena Endre. In utter confidence she begins to whisper her secrets to the writer, who listens, transfixed.