About the Swedish author Agnes Von Krusenstjerna during the period of her marriage to David Sprengel. In the hallucinatory opening sequence she is brought in a straitjacket by her husband and two psychiatric nurses through the Venice Carnival nocturnal antics to a mental hospital in the city. With her is a manuscript of her autobiography, which she calls "her child". The book is Agnes showdown with her family, and in flashbacks presented, Agnes progress from the author of innocent girls' books to serious and self-consuming novelist.
as Agnes von Krusenstjerna
as David Sprengel
as Adolf von Krusenstjerna
as Ava de Geer
as Gerhard Odencrantz
as Eva von Krusenstjerna
as Ernst von Krusenstjerna
as Joachin Rosenhjelm
as Miss Tollen
as Felix
as Arvida
as Doctor Iller
as Magnhild
as Miss Rosenhjelm
as Evelina Hamilton
as Hugo Hamilton
as Jan Guy Hamilton
as Edward von Krusenstjerna
as Beda
as Frey Odencrantz
as Salomon
as Constable
as Viveka Hamilton
as Eva Hamilton
as Nurse Clara
