According to old Jewish folklore, Lilith was the woman Adam had before Eve. Haavardsholm writes a tight drama about the three friends Kaja, Uno and endre. It’s late at night Easter Sunday, and Kaja has brutally murdered her husband Uno. She is committed to a women’s prison. Endre, who is a court psychiatrist, decides to dig around in the circumstances of the murder, and seeks answers by examining his own past as well as Kaja’s.

With a penetrating gaze, Haavardsholm cuts deep into the darkest sides of the human soul; what we carry around inside us without realizing, that makes powerlessness and dark pits as present as love and strength. Endre, Kaja and Uno form a triangle that was also central in the novel The Innermost Room, named novel of the year by Norway’s largest morning paper Aftenposten when it was published in 1998.