Mai Zetterling gives her own provocative views on the world as she sees it - views on marriage, on the pressures of contemporary society, on women and on her own attempts to live without compromising. This is a film about the making of a film - a short film Mai Zetterling has directed expressly for this programme in which she states her belief in what she calls "an awareness of life". In it the husband and wife are acted by her close friends the actor Joss Ackland and his real wife Rose Mary.