Troubled artist Johan (Max von Sydow) is haunted by past memories -- and those demons are contagious, as Johan's wife, Alma (Liv Ullmann), learns when she begins to experience the same delusions in this brooding, surreal Gothic tale from Swedish master filmmaker Ingmar Bergman. Elsewhere on the remote island where the couple reside, a local aristocrat (Erland Josephson) and his supernatural clan could be behind the nightmares.