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战争阴影还没消散的欧洲，翻译家、知识分子Ester（英格里德•图林）与妹妹Anna（冈内尔•林德布洛姆）以及Anna的儿子Johan一起坐火车回瑞典。途中，患有晚期肺病的Ester发病，三人于一个言语不通的小城下车，住进一家老宾馆。 　　Ester有意无意间总想偷窥Anna的生活，想对她表示好感却无从下手，而Anna一心认为Ester是她的束缚。某晚，Anna外出结识一名酒保，返回宾馆后将幻想中的性爱的过程和刺激描述给Ester听，引起对方的激烈反应，随后，她与酒保在Ester眼皮底下做爱，终引起Ester爆发，多年来深藏在两人心中的、夹杂着嫉恨与冲突的往事被重提。"The Silence" is about the emotional distance between two sisters. The younger one is still attractive enough to pick up a lover in a strange city. The older one -- even though she is very ill -- would like to make a human connection also but cannot leave the hotel room. Traveling with the sisters is a small boy who escapes into the hotel, meets a troupe of dwarfs. Which sister is this little boy's mother?