As they tour Sweden in a theatrical production of "Lysistrata", performing to often uncomprehending audiences, three women find their own lives and marriages mirrored in Aristophanes’s play. Soon, onstage drama, offstage reality, and surrealist fantasies begin to collide.
Bibi Andersson
as Liz / Lysistrata
Harriet Andersson
as Marianne / Myrrhine
Gunnel Lindblom
as Gunilla / Kalonike
Gunnar Björnstrand
as Hugo
Erland Josephson
as Carl, Mann von Liz
Frank Sundström
as Marianne's lover
Åke Lindström
as Bengt
Stig Engström
as Thommy
Margreth Weivers
as Tourist Manager's Wife
Leif Liljeroth
as Tourist Manager Kiruna
Ulf Palme
as Director
Ingvar Kjellson
as Olle
