At the child's funeral, She (Charlotte Gainsbourg) collapses and spends a month mostly unconscious in the hospital. When she wakes, She is crippled with grief and He (Willem Dafoe), a therapist, takes it upon himself to talk his wife through the grief process. He has her flush her prescribed medication down the toilet. After a less-than-fruitful time of catharsis at home, during which She tries to hide the pain with sex, He decides exposure therapy will be effective. She tells him that she is most afraid at a cabin in the woods at which she spent time alone with Nic (Storm Acheche Sahlstrøm) the previous summer, whilst writing a thesis on gynocide. The couple travel to Eden, the cabin. During the journey He sees a deer which is in mid-stillbirth - a calf is protruding from its rear end.Chapter Two: Pain (Chaos Reigns)When at the cabin, She again attempts to have sex with her husband. He does not comprehend her fear of the natural world and tries to solve her fears with psychotherapy, despite their relationship creating a conflict of interest. She becomes increasingly manic and grief-stricken. Meanwhile, the natural world surrounding the cabin continually proves itself to be forbidding and nihilistic; acorns pelt the cabin like gunfire, and at one point He comes across a self-disembowelling fox which seems to utter the words, "Chaos reigns". He begins to understand his wife's fear of nature: that the nihilism seen in nature is just as present in humanity.Chapter Three: Despair (Gynocide)While searching the cabin, He finds materials studied by his wife for her thesis: pictures of witch-hunts and a scrapbook filled with articles and notes on misogynist topics, in which her handwriting becomes more illegible as the pages go on. She, due to intense self-blame over Nic's death, comes to embrace the belief that women are inherently evil. He confronts her with Nic's autopsy report, which states that the bones in both of his feet were distorted. In a toolshed, He finds photographs of Nic, in which his boots are regularly on the wrong feet. She attacks her husband mid-coitus in the shed, crushing his genitals with a block of wood. While He is unconscious, She masturbates him until he orgasms, ejaculating blood onto her shirt and face. She then drills a hole through his calf, and bolts a heavy millstone to his leg. She flees outside leaving him unconscious in the shed, throwing the tool She used to tighten the millstone under the cabin.He wakes up and drags himself away, finding a foxhole in which to hide. While She frantically searches for him, He finds a crow buried alive, which makes noise upon waking, giving away his hiding place. He beats it repeatedly but it survives. She finds him and tries burying him alive, but digs him up several hours afterwards.Chapter Four: The Three BeggarsDuring a confrontation in the house, She takes a pair of scissors and performs a clitoridectomy upon herself, and curls up on the floor in agonizing pain.During the night the couple are visited by "the 3 Beggars" (a deer who represents grief, a fox who represents pain and a crow who represents despair) and acorns again beat against the roof of the cabin. Hearing the crow underneath the floor board, he breaks through the floor of the shed, discovering the tool with which to release the millstone from his leg, and then strangles his wife, killing her. He burns the body outside the cabin on a pyre, which was shown upon his arrival at the cabin.EpilogueHe makes his way from the cabin, finding a patch of berries along the way and eats the berries from the ground. Upon reaching the top of a hill, he turns around and sees "the 3 Beggars" (deer, fox and crow) behind him slowly fading away until completely gone. He looks down to see hundreds of women rushing up the hill towards him, their faces white and blurred. [D-Man2010]
Question: What do they find under the floorboards?, Answer: <No Answer> Question: What did the woman come to believe while writing her thesis?, Answer: <No Answer> Question: what is the thesis name?, Answer: <No Answer> Question: How is her body disposed of?, Answer: <No Answer> Question: What happens when Nic is found?, Answer: She attacks her husband Question: who is a therapist?, Answer: Husband Question: What happens at the base of the dead tree?, Answer: <No Answer> Question: What is the father's occupation?, Answer: <No Answer> Question: Does the mother have typical or atypical grief?, Answer: atypical Question: What happened to tho the wrench she used on Nic's leg?, Answer: <No Answer> Question: What does she believe all women are?, Answer: Evil Question: What animals visit them?, Answer: a deer a crow and a fox Question: What body part does she cut off?, Answer: clit Question: What was he eating after he came out of the cabin?, Answer: Wild berries Question: What type of animal did he find buried alive?, Answer: crow Question: What does he suspect is the womans greatest and hidden fear?, Answer: Nature Question: What does the man think is the woman's secret (and greatest) fear?, Answer: fear of the natural world Question: What is the mother's second greatest fear?, Answer: The Natural World. Question: What power did witches have?, Answer: <No Answer> Question: What did the man find in the attic?, Answer: <No Answer> Question: Where does she drill a hole?, Answer: Through his leg. Question: What are the woods called where the cabin is?, Answer: Eden Question: Where is the increasingly frantic writing found?, Answer: In Her thesis materials. Question: Who falls to his death from a window?, Answer: Nic Question: why mother collapses?, Answer: Death of child Question: What does she use to smash him with?, Answer: <No Answer> Question: Where does he go upon awakening?, Answer: foxhole Question: Does the mother spend the next month or the next year in the hospital?, Answer: month Question: What does she cut off?, Answer: <No Answer> Question: What does she tell the man she unburies?, Answer: her husband Question: What pelts the metal roof?, Answer: Acorns pelt the metal roof. Question: Who collapses at the funeral?, Answer: She (Charlotte Gainsbourg) Question: What were the terrifying pictures foiund in the womans thesis depicting?, Answer: Witch-hunts Question: What has Nic realized?, Answer: <No Answer> Question: What is found in a dark attic?, Answer: <No Answer> Question: What does he discover through the autopsy and old photos?, Answer: <No Answer> Question: How does the man react to the "women are inherently evil" belief?, Answer: repulsed Question: Who does she watch climb up to the window?, Answer: <No Answer> Question: What is the hand covered in?, Answer: <No Answer> Question: Who climbs to the window?, Answer: Nic Question: Of what does she accuse him?, Answer: him of planning to leave her