Director's Note

This film is an adaptation and exploration of Richard Wagner's “Tristan and Isolde.”
The external plot of my film is based, in a poetic sense, on a real event that I personally witnessed as a former opera singer at the world's leading opera houses.
 
Background to the film

The year is 2022.
A young female Swedish opera singer is admitted to a psychiatric clinic.
She collapsed during a performance of Richard Wagner's “Tristan and Isolde” at a famous opera house in the USA. On her journey from Europe to the USA, she suffered from sudden anxiety and panic attacks, which her husband attributed to excessive stress and her high alcohol consumption since the Covid-19 pandemic, when she was not allowed to sing.
 
Plot of the film

The year is 2035. Thirteen years have passed.
The Swedish opera singer is now 45 years old.
She never recovered from her collapse on stage and was unable to leave the psychiatric clinic.
She lives in a sanatorium on a small island on the Swedish-Finnish border.
During her time there, her condition has stabilized outwardly, but inwardly, things look very different.
She is living three lives as a woman in different eras:
In 500 AD, as Princess Isolde, in 2000 AD, as a young woman, and in the present day, where she believes she has become the mother of a daughter. It remains unclear whether her daughter is not another life of herself, as the chosen child.
In her subjective present, she describes herself as a teacher who has been teaching at this institute/school for 13 years. For the first time in 13 years, she allows her students to leave school or continue learning with her.
Are we witnessing a surprising metamorphosis of this woman on this special day?