A woman goes to a secluded Alpine hunting lodge with a couple friends. Her friends decide to hoof it to the local village tavern while she decides to stay at the lodge with the dog, Lynx.
Waking up the next morning, our protagonist discovers that her friends have not returned. She decides to walk to town only to find that there's an invisible wall blocking the road and surrounding the lodge compound.
The movie features extended readings from the woman's diary and we get to see the scenes she describes enacted as well. She deals with the enforced solitude and having to hunt and grow her own food. With no other company, she becomes attached to the loyal Lynx and begins to notice the rhythms of nature in detail as she wanders the woods and around the nearby tarn.
It's a lovely, meditative film with nature being alternatively giving and harsh. The woman tries to comes to grips with her predicament by writing. I found her observations of the white crow and its rejection by its fellow corvids to be quite moving.
Now to read the book it's based on.
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