In an out of the way mansion fatally ill Agnes feverishly lives out her final hours. In video fragments she registers not only her pain but also her irrepressible urge to grant herself a voice. Her powerful vitality is outlined sharply against the attitude of the three women who watch over her. Death does not bring them closer to each other, but is like a looking glass from which the women see themselves reflected. All-revealing flashbacks show the lies, the cold-heartedness and the sexual frustrations that made them into what they are: scared and disillusioned women, caught in silence and in the servility of their bourgeois world.