[2] Anna is a maid who starts an affair with the married Elias, who has a young son and a newborn daughter with Rakel.

When a woman is sentenced to beheading and then being burned at the stake, Anna regrets her lies against Rakel.

Eventually, Elias leaves the town, abandoning his children and wife, to sail at sea.

Anna's guilt consumes her, and to save Rakel's newborn daughter from starvation, she brings the baby to the dungeon, where a guard softens and allows her to pass.

The truth is revealed as the camera settles on Rakel, who remembers that the happy ending did not happen, and that Anna was beheaded.