The painful life of a mentally unstable but highly gifted woman is unveiled in this film, based on episodes from the life of an actual person. Aloise (Delphine Seyrig) creates a series of haunting drawings while she is incarcerated in an institution for the insane in turn-of-the-century Switzerland. She endures torments as a musically gifted girl and later as a young woman; her developing madness and the barbaric treatments of the time are shown.
Aloïse (adulte)
le père d'Aloïse
le médecin
Aloïse (jeune)
L'ingénieur
Le directeur du théâtre
Le professeur de chant
La soeur d'Aloïse
L'ancien directeur
Le pasteur de l'asile
Le professeur
Le chapelain