在这部黑暗中的音乐剧情片中,伯格曼最早期的作品，显示了他的风格。他让主角在经历了长期的黑暗和绝望的煎熬后，对爱欲的渴望成为继续下去的动力源泉，情欲的饥渴和需要便顺理成章，成为治疗现实创伤的唯一灵丹。
In Sweden, the upper-class pianist Bengt Vyldeke suffers an accident in the military drill and becomes blind. He returns to the house of his aunt Beatrice Schröder and is initially supported by his sister Agneta since his fiancée Blanche has called off their engagement and his friends have abandoned him. When Agneta goes to the university, the young servant Ingrid helps Bengt in his daily life and falls in love with him. But she overhears a conversation between Bengt and Beatrice when his master belittles her calling Ingrid of "little maid". Bengt travels to play piano in the restaurant of a cunning manager and finds humiliation and loneliness. Years later he meets Ingrid, who has studied and is near to graduate and he falls in love with her. But Ingrid has a boyfriend Ebbe (Bengt Eklund), strong and handsome, and Bengt has to fight with his inferiority complex first to win the love of Ingrid.
黑暗中的爱。唯美但并非悲剧。
