Netflix DVD was scratched..

Hi :) I'll try to explain:

SPOILER(s):

Right after her b/w dream, the police arrive (in present time)at Andreas' house, and give him a letter saying that Johan Andersson (Erik Hell)has committed suicide. After reading the letter, both the police and (apparantly) Anna listening to what's apparantly written, Andreas find Anna sitting for herself. The tone between them become unpleasant when Andreas confront her with what he believe is a "*beep* theatre" on her behalf. Then, after Andreas have a spent a quiet time with Johan laying dead on his bed, we jump one year ahead. The narrator explain that they Andreas and Anna have lived together in a certain harmony, only periodically harmed by "collision", ending in conciliation. While they sit in their house with each their work occupying their time, we see Andreas' memories (as in a first-person-POV - in other words: Through his eyes) of his wife. We see they're making love, she getting dressed, before lying down on the bed just next to the camera (what seem to be Andreas's eyes). We are back in the present, and Anna's asking Andreas what he's doing. He tell her that he's looking at at photography. "I hope it's not an old lover", says Anna. He says he's thinking about cancer (which seem partly true, due to a voice over in his "flashback" talking about (his?) cancer). After a short break, Anna tells him she's thinking about the "lies". She goes to the kitchen and grab a pot with milk, before intentionally lose it and thereby spilling the floor. She says/yells: Andreas! He embrace her. Now we're given given a scene with the two faces infront of a perfectly black background. Andreas is the most talkative here, and among other things, he says:

I'm dead. No, that's too melodramatic. I'm not dead. But I live without self-respect. I know it sounds silly and pretentious. Most people live without self-esteem. Humiliated at heart, stifled, and spat upon. They're alive and that's all they know. They know of no alternative. Even if they did, they would never reach out for it. Can one be sick with humiliation? Is this a disease we have to live with? We talk so much about freedom. Isn't freedom a poison for the humiliated? Or is it merely a drug the humiliated use in order to endure? I can't live like this. I've given up. I can't stand it anymore. The days drag by. I'm choked by the food I swallow, the *beep* I get rid of, the words I say. The daylight screams at me every morning to get up. Sleep is only dreams that chase me. The darkness rustles with ghosts and memories. Has is ever occurred to you that the worse off people are, the less they complain? Finally, they're silent even if they're living creatures with nerves, eyes, and hands. Vast armies of victims and hangmen. The sun rises and falls, heavily. The cold approaches. The darkness. The heat. The smell. They're all silent. We can never leave. It's too late. Everything's too late. (taken directly from "memorable quotes" here on imdb).

After this scene, we're given an interview with Elis (or more correctly: Erland Josephson), talking about his character.

We then see Andreas and Anna at the dinner table. After quite a while with silence, Anna asks Andreas what he's going to do today. Andreas reply asking Anna what she's going to do today. There's silence. Anna says (ice-cold): "I asked what you were going to do today". Andreas goes outside, starting to chop wood...


Hope this helped!