This 1972 Swedish period film is set in a mansion at the end of the 19th century. It is about three sisters and a servant (Anna) who struggle with the terminal cancer of one of the sisters (Agnes). The servant is close to her and prays devoutly, while the other two sisters confront their emotional distance from each other. While Agnes' sisters remain emotionally distant, Anna comforts the suffering Agnes by baring her breasts and holding her at night. It is this scene which is highlighted in the stamp.
Academic Arthur Gibson likened it to Michelangelo's Pietà, saying "Anna is holding in her arms the pain and loneliness and sin of the world caught up in the innocent Divine Sufferer." Film scholar Marc Gervais suggested that to Bergman "a touch, on certain occasions, can make life."
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