A powerful Protector commissions a young artist to create an illuminated book to celebrate his power. The book, and its artist, sparks the rebellion of the Protector's submissive wife Agn�s.
Agn�s compels the Boy to depict their relationship in his illuminations. The Protector cannot avoid understanding what he sees. He kills the Boy and serves his heart to Agn�s. She remains defiant, and leaps to her death rather than let herself be killed.
Sung in English with surtitles.