The devil has a stye in his eye, caused by the purity of a vicar’s daughter. To get rid of it, he sends Don Juan up from hell to seduce the 20 year old Britt-Marie and to rob her of her virginity and her belief in love. However, she resists him, and in turn Don Juan falls in love with her.

Between The Virgin Spring and Through a Glass Darkly exists this overshadowed, underappreciated curio—one of Ingmar Bergman most purely enjoyable features. Bibi Andersson is on hand for this especially theatrical, especially allegorical morality play, a Scandinavian riff on Don Juan.