Malin K

SHORT SYNOPSIS
The funeral of Erik Alving brings old memories to life not only with his wife Helene. It quickly becomes clear that the image of the past has no absolute truth – everyone remembers it differently. Pastor Gabriel Manders, for example, denies ever having had an intimate relationship with Helene, while she vividly remembers the night together and the vows. For financial, social and pragmatic reasons she stayed with Erik. She sets up her life with a perfect façade; secrets, cruelty and mutual hatred hidden behind it – the perfect lie of life. She treated her son Osvald more or less as a substitute for a husband, and invaded his body and mind since he was young. He escaped from home as a teenager. Now he has returned to the funeral of his father to the place of his childhood. Regine, Helene’s ward and Erik’s secret daughter, and Osvald falls in love. Out of jealousy Helene reveals that they are siblings (they are not), which makes Regine leave. To punish his mother, Osvald then tells her that he is dying. He has some pills in his pockets. She does not want to keep living alone with all these memories, these ghosts, so they make a suicide pact. When he feels another attack seizing his body, Helene gives him the pills, but not all. Apparently they both die. Then he rises, spits out the pills and leave the stage.