'Waiting Women' is an episodic work composed of three segments, the third of which represents Bergman's first foray into comedy, later honed in the erotic farce 'A Lesson In Love'. Three sisters-in-law talk about their marital problems while waiting for their husbands at a summer cottage. The first story concerns Rakel and an adulterous episode that changed her marriage forever. In the next, Marta tells of her difficult relationship with an artist, her future husband, in Paris. In the acclaimed final piece - inspired by the cinematic style of Alfred Hitchcock - Karin and her husband, Fredrik, find themselves stuck together in an elevator and consequently end up making some surprising discoveries about each other's personalities. A seminal work from the master of Swedish cinema.