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Martin, , a respected doctor, his wife Karin, Karins seventeen year old brother Minus, and widowed father David of Karin and Minus have convened at the familys summer home on an island off the coast of Sweden to celebrate Davids return from the Swiss Alps, where he was substantially completing his latest novel. The family has long lived a fantasy of they being a loving one, Davids extended absences which are the cause of many of the familys problems. Without that parental guidance, Minus is at a confused and vulnerable stage of his life where he is a bundle of repressed emotions, most specifically concerning not feeling loved by his father and concerning the opposite sex. He is attracted to females as a collective but does not know how to handle blatant female sexuality, especially if it is directed his way. A month earlier Karin was released from a mental institution. Her doctor has told Martin that the likelihood that she will fully recover from her illness is low, her ultimate fate being that her mental state will disintegrate totally, although she has functioned well since her release. In his love for her, Martin has vowed to himself to see her through whatever she faces. As Karin begins to lose grip on reality, Minus is the one most directly affected, although it does bring out the issues all the men are facing with regard to their interrelationships.
In a small family island, Karin, her teenage brother Minus and her husband Martin welcome her father David, who is a writer permanently absent traveling around the world. Karin has just left a mental institution and has inherited the incurable insanity from her mother. Minus feels lost and alone, estranged by his selfish and cold father that left Karin and he behind after the death of his wife. Martin is neglected by Karin and has no sex life with her anymore and spends his time taking care of his wife. When Karin finds the journal of her father hidden in a drawer in his desk, she reads that her degenerative disease is incurable and triggers a breakdown.
Harriet Andersson
Karin - sister
Gunnar Björnstrand
David - father
Max von Sydow
Martin - Karin's husband
Lars Passgård
Minus - brother
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