About the Swedish author Agnes Von Krusenstjerna during the period of her marriage to David Sprengel. In the hallucinatory opening sequence she is brought in a straitjacket by her husband and two psychiatric nurses through the Venice Carnival nocturnal antics to a mental hospital in the city. With her is a manuscript of her autobiography, which she calls "her child". The book is Agnes showdown with her family, and in flashbacks presented, Agnes progress from the author of innocent girls' books to serious and self-consuming novelist.
| Directing | Mai Zetterling | Director |
| Writing | Mai Zetterling | Writer |
| Sound | Folke Beck-Remnes | Sound |
| Sound | Adel Kjellström | Sound |
| Sound | Tomas Krantz | Sound |
| Sound | Åsa Lindgren | Sound |
| Costume & Make-Up | John Kindahl | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Gertie Lindgren | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Kerstin Lokrantz | Costume Design |
| Art | Jan Öqvist | Production Design |
| Editing | Darek Hodor | Editor |
| Editing | Mai Zetterling | Editor |
| Camera | Rune Ericson | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Mischa Gavrjusjov | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Roger Wallis | Original Music Composer |
| Production | Bengt Forslund | Producer |
