Few poets have been as appreciated and loved as Bodil Malmsten. Her pioneering style drew the broad masses to poetry and shaped generations of readers. But she herself had a hard time feeling that she was dying - a feeling that over time became so strong that in her middle age she left everything and emigrated to Finistère, Bretagne. In the film, family and friends tell about how Bodil Malmsten wrote to conjure up her inner darkness.—Anonymous