When the mother of his infant son unexpectedly passes away, struggling actor Mark grapples with fatherhood and his inability to grow up. And when he sparks with a single mother, he learns how his choices have real-life consequences.
A relay race of "scenes from human life". Depicts the human characters inferior traits are spreading like a disease: the person who gets rejected / humiliated / oppressed takes it out on someone else.
艾格尼丝（哈里特·安德森 Harriet Andersson饰）、玛丽亚（丽芙·乌曼 Liv Ullmann饰）和卡琳（英格里德·图林 Ingrid Thulin饰）虽然是三姊妹，各人内心却有着积重难返的隔膜和疏离。艾格尼丝身患绝症，生命将近，守护在她身边的是女仆安娜。艾格尼丝没有得到过母亲完整的爱，死前妄想让关系紧张的姐妹变得珍爱彼此，却一再事与愿违。
玛丽亚是最得母亲宠爱的孩子，因此遭到姐妹的嫉妒。她的感情生活处理的一塌糊涂，在丈夫和情人之间徘徊周旋。她对爱越是拥有，就越是贪婪。
卡琳的生活更是充满压
