Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, each of whom causes the elderly doctor to muse upon the pleasures and failures of his own life. These include the vivacious young Sara, a dead ringer for the doctor's own first love.

律师玛丽安（丽芙•乌曼Liv Ullmann 饰）与精神学讲师约翰（厄兰•约瑟夫森Erland Josephson 饰）结婚十余载，育有两名女儿，生活幸福平稳。朋友皮特（金•玛思索Jan Malmsjö饰）与卡特里娜（毕比•安德森Bibi Andersson 饰）的婚姻生活却濒于解体。感慨万千的玛丽安发现自己怀孕，没曾想约翰竟倾向于打胎。有一天约翰突然向玛丽安提出自己爱上了一名叫宝拉的女子，二人痛苦分居。在协议离婚的过程中，二人的愤懑不满纷纷爆发，直到多年后，玛丽安与约翰才终于体会到爱情是什么。
电视版本分六集，295分钟；电影版168分钟，获1975年金球奖最佳外语片奖，丽芙•乌曼提名金球奖及英国电影电视艺术学院奖最佳女主角。

1960 film by Ingmar Bergman

Traveling through an unnamed European country on the brink of war, sickly, intellectual Ester, her sister Anna and Anna's young son, Johan, check into a near-empty hotel. A basic inability to communicate among the three seems only to worsen during their stay. Anna provokes her sister by enjoying a dalliance with a local man, while the boy, left to himself, has a series of enigmatic encounters that heighten the growing air of isolation.

1982 film by Ingmar Bergman