Inta is a brusque crusty woman who lives alone on the edge of a picturesque marsh One day her solitude is intruded upon by the arrival of a documentary filmmaker In his eyes Inta is an outstanding wouldbe film protagonist but the wild woman would rather put a curse on the importunate intruder than let herself be filmed But the filmmakers persistence finally succeeds in melting the ice of Intas heart just in order to break it soon afterwards