In an uneven, if not erratic overstatement about insanity and its opposite (for director Egil Kolso, the world peace movement), a woman with a normal, sane life behaves "insanely" after becoming a peace activist. Marianne (Lise Fjeldstad) is married to a stock broker and has a daughter Karin (Pia Borgli) who one day accuses her of sharing in the responsibility for the build-up of nuclear weapons in the world, for the alarming increase in environmental pollution and degradation, and for the sorry mess that characterizes conditions around the globe. Karin runs away from home, and her mother becomes active in the peace movement as a result of this encounter. Later, daughter and mother reunite and patch up their differences, but by that time Marianne has also "run away from home" and is sleeping out on the docks. When the police pick her up, worried about her, she attacks them as best she can. The next thing she knows, she is in a hospital ward being sedated by a doctor who is a friend of her husband. Marianne has no intention of staying in the hospital -- but what is her next logical move?
by Eleanor Mannikka
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