Snowy exterior shots and painted backdrops for a dark fairy tale with disturbing moral implications. Death is a benevolent old man with a sickle who lives in a magical cavern full of pendulums – the lives of men – and disturbing little devils with wings drawn on their chest. When he takes a baby from its mother, she cannot come to terms with it until the other future is shown to her in a magic spring proving to her that it could be worse: disgrace. In the closing emblematic shot, two daggers pierce her heart. Mystical.