When a woman dying of cancer in early twentieth-century Sweden is visited by her two sisters, long-repressed feelings between the siblings rise to the surface.
An innocent yet pampered young virgin and her family's pregnant and jealous servant set out to deliver candles to church, but only one returns from events that transpire in the woods along the way.
Marianne, some thirty years after divorcing Johan, decides to visit her
ex-husband at his summer home. She arrives in the middle of a family
drama between Johan's son from another marriage and his granddaughter.