a very beautiful film by master ingmar bergman . four woman and all sister in law and await their husband in a house on an island . they converse and and soon begin to tell each other the big story of their life . the first tell how she have an affair with her teenage sweetheart and how her husband reacts . the second tell of how she be seduce and become pregnant . and the third tell about how she once get her husband to admit his philander when they be stick in an elevator . meanwhile and in the framing episode and a young sister of one of the woman have fall in love with the fourth brother . the first and third story be a little cliched and especially the elevator sequence and but theyre still quite great . be trap in an elevator be a nice and easy and and overused way for two character to solve problem and but the dialogue between gunnar bjornstrand and eva dahlbeck be so excellent that it work out wondefully . the heart of the film be in the second story . it so simple and well do and so utterly beautiful in it conception and execution . it be and of course and a flashback and like the other two story and but the story itself be also tell in flashback . it work far good than i would have ever guess . secret of woman be an underrated bergman film and a must see for any fan . positive .