The Best Intentions tells the story of Ingmar Bergman's father and mother from their first meeting one spring day in 1909 until Ingmar was about to be born, in 1918. The basic facts of the story are all true. Henrick, a desperately poor student-priest and Anna, a dynamic young beauty, doted on by her wealthy middle-class parents, fall in love and, despite her domineering mother's opposition, eventually marry. Marriage, however, is only the beginning of their troubled relationship, marked by dramas, quarrels, and reconciliations, misunderstandings and forgiveness. In The Best Intentions Ingmar Bergman takes these facts of his parents' early married life and, being the master of fiction that he is, transmutes them into a passionate, tender and utterly riveting tale.