A woman is supposed to write a film script about the district she lives in, and can’t get it done. She is torn and cannot decide what to do. Her imagination takes over. The desire to be present where something happens makes her ask: shouldn't you have had a camera and sought out the life outside your window instead of writing about it? Or maybe you should have lived that life and not made films at all?

Anne Haugsgjerd (b. 1944) was originally trained as a graphic artist at the Norwegian School of Crafts and Design, but has been making films since the 1980s. She works in the short film format and in the intersection between fiction and documentary. She herself has described her often humorous and reflective, biographical and self-revealing films as "bastards". Life at Frogner (1986) is her most famous film and received both the Amanda nomination and the audience award at the Short Film Festival in Grimstad. Later, she has been presented several times at the renowned Oberhausen short film festival where also More Woman, More Cry (2021) premiered.