A woman sits in an armchair, with a ragged doll in her arms, and talks to a fixed camera. The woman is artist Florence Burnier-Bauer. Her lengthy conversation with film-maker Paul Poet is a gut-wrenching sample of oral history about abuse, resistance and, ultimately,  emancipation. When she fled from her bourgeois home into a life of freedom, Florence did not know what that freedom would entail: she ended up in the Austrian counterculture community Friedrichshof, led by Austrian artist Otto Mühl, (1925-2013), a co-founder and participant of Viennese Actionism, where the cycle of violence and mistreatment escalated. Among the declared aims of the commune were free ownership, free sexuality, the destruction of bourgeois marriage and private property, and the collective education of the children. Following her experience at Friedrichshof, Florence needed decades to recover, before playing a crucial part in the court case which sentenced Otto Mühl to seven years in prison.