Ingmar Bergman's The Serpent's Egg follows a week in the life of Abel Rosenberg, an out-of-work American circus acrobat living in poverty-stricken Berlin following Germany's defeat in World War I. When his brother commits suicide, Abel seeks refuge in the apartment of an old acquaintance Professor Veregus. Desperate to make ends meet in the war-ravaged city, Abel takes a job in Veregus' clinic, where he discovers the horrific truth behind the work of the strangely beneficent professor and unlocks the chilling mystery that drove his brother to kill himself.宛情若有所思地看着他，莫名地又想去亲他了。她心里一惊，低下头，轻轻地握住了他的手。他一动，低头看着她，见她露在外面的一截雪白的脖子，还有下巴美丽的曲线，忍不住有些燥热。