A Respectable Tragedy

In the 1930s middleaged museum curator Tauno Saarinen yearns for a young beautiful maid and writes a lengthy confession about his feelings which he gives his wife Elisabet to read Elisabet shows the writings to her husbands sister Naimi an art critic who tries to reconcile with her exhusband despite a spiteful motherinlaw Meanwhile things gets worse between Tauno and Elisabet when the young maid seduced by Tauno becomes pregnant Based on a novel by Helvi Hämäläinen first published in 1941 but partly censored until 1995 because allegedly based on true incidents involving wellknown people