This as been Deren's most influential work. Deren, playing the central figure, is caught in an extended dream that in the final scene spills over into reality. She experience a series of simbolic images and actions, a knife falls and reappears on the stairs, on the bed, in her hand... Events occur to indicate the dream state. P. Adams Sitney has referred to such films as 'trance films'. Teji Ito wrote the score, based on japanese music, in 1959.