Eyolf (2017)

Alfred and Rita live as a married couple together with their disabled child, Eyolf. The boy's handicap is the result of a fall in babyhood, when he was left unattended by his parents. After this accident Alfred has withdrawn from Rita and buried himself in his treatise on "human responsibility", which he considers the great work of his life. Coming back from a trip to the mountains, he decides to give up his book and devote himself entirely to Eyolf's happiness and progress. Rita feels rejected by her husband, and this results in outbursts of violent jealousy of both her son and Alfred's stepsister Asta, to whom Alfred is strongly attached. She reaches the point where she even wishes that Eyolf had never been born, as he diverts Alfred's attention from herself. Eyolf's accidental drowning uncovers secrets of the past and triggers off the suppressed guilt, mutual accusations and confrontation among the three who are left behind. Alfred and a conscience-stricken Rita beg Asta to stay with them and help them, but Asta escapes far away. Rita shares her plan to stay and devote herself to improving the lives of the poor children who live down by the sea. In this, Alfred decides to remain next to her so that together they can atone for their mistakes and, out of their feelings of guilt, their sorrow and the void left by the loss of Eyolf, find a road to absolution.