A war photographer faces a moral crisis when she is forced to examine the implications of her work. On one level, Haneke’s dramatization of Ingeborg Bachmann’s prose monologue foreshadows his examination of visual documentation and the media in such films as Code Inconnu and Caché. On another level, Haneke uses Bachmann’s work to deal with the lost ideals of his own generation, who came of age in the 1950s and early 60s.