Women's Expectations

Four women were married to four brothers. One summer, while waiting for their husbands to come home for vacation, the four of them talked about their marital status. One had a quarrel with her husband because of her affair, one fell in love with an artist in Paris and had a child but refused to get married, one told the story of a couple trapped in an elevator, and the last one wanted to elope with her lover's boyfriend. Bergman uses the form of a chamber drama to expose the women's inner secrets one by one, but the film also emphasizes that this does not alleviate their pressure and pain. Such sharing only brings painful exchanges and even more unspeakable secrets.