The Voice of Ljudmila

Every year about 80 people kill themselves in Sweden by standing on a rail track and waiting for a train. Every single tragedy thus also takes place in the train cab.

A documentary about love, grief and survival in the shadow of the Chernobyl disaster. A mother and her son and the eternal struggle between memories and hope, between then and now.

Mai Zetterling is interviewed in the summer of 1984 in her house in southern France. Seventeen years have passed since the Girls were made in Sweden and were adversely affected by the criticism. Zetterling discusses why she left Sweden and resides at crucial times in her life; The drama period, to be celebrated actress and then to move to pave his way in the male-dominated director's profession. A guiding star in Zetterling's life has been to constantly expand its boundaries.

This is the night is a film-poetic encounter; a homeless language, a forgotten place, a prophetic poem. The language is Yiddish, the site the Jewish cemetery in Warsaw with its 200,000 dilapidated graves and the poem published by Anna Margolin in New York in 1929.