Lars von Trier's controversial exploration of depression, guilt & sexuality stars Willem Dafoe & Charlotte Gainsbourg as a couple grieving the death of their young son. The mother is initially admitted to hospital following the incident, but her husband
- a therapist
- insists on taking her to their remote forest cabin, ' Eden', & looking after her himself. Presented in four chapters with a prologue & epilogue, the film charts the often violent & disturbing course of the couple's anguish as they immerse themselves in nature & act out their deep suffering in a sequence of increasingly bizarre & brutal rituals.