Year: 1977
Runtime: 93 mins
Language: Icelandic
Director: Reynir Oddsson
A middle-aged bourgeois couple endure a loveless existence with their striking eighteen-year-old daughter. Unbeknownst to him, the daughter is the product of his wife's early-marriage affair, and the husband becomes obsessively attracted to her. His forbidden desire ignites a chain of tragic events that shatter the family.
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