A filmed adaptation of Rose Leiman Goldemberg’s play, based on Sylvia Plath’s intense correspondence with her mother Aurelia, from the time the poet was in university until her suicide. Delphine Seyrig and her niece Coralie Seyrig recite Sylvia and Aurelia’s letters to the audience directly.

纽约的城市图景，并行的是现实中艾克曼倾读母亲来信的段片。信是居住在比利时的母亲写来的。艾克曼这部早期的实验电影，是对他乡旅人的距离的最好的描述。