Logical, exacting, and also self-controlled cinema director, Henrik Vogler, commonly stays after practice session to believe as well as prepare. On now, Anna returns, seemingly trying to find an arm band. She is the lead in his new manufacturing of Stindberg's "A Dream Play." She broaches her hatred for her mom, currently dead, an alcoholic starlet, who was Vogler's star and also fan. Vogler falls into an absent-mindedness, bearing in mind a day Anna's mother, Rakel, late in life, came after practice session to beg him to find to her home. He wakes up as well as Anna reveals the factor she has returned: she jolts him into an emotional feedback, rare for him, and the feelings of a young woman and an older guy play out.