 The story develops into a Kafkaesque nightmare as Bergman , besieged by autograph hunters , finally decides that Hollywood is not for him . Unable to get an international line to call Sweden , he tries to escape on foot , pursued by hotel staff , police cars and helicopters " like an actor in a bad , big @-@ budget Hollywood action film " . He evades his captors and reaches the seashore , where he prays for deliverance and at last meets the angelic figure of Greta Garbo , who guides him " home to somewhere monochrome , but somewhere you will be a certain kind of free " . A circular plot device concludes and resolves the fantasy . 
