Hedda Gabler, a deceased General’s little girl, marries dull George Tesman and foresees a existence of middleclass tedium stretching out ahead if they come back from a honeymoon they cannot afford to a residence they cannot afford. Increasingly, she actually is drawn into the clutches of her admirer, Judge Brack, who seeks to determine a menage a trois. Then a former flame gets there in the excellent but dissolute Eilert Lovborg to rival her spouse for an academic post. After a drunken orgy, the manuscript of Lovborg’s treatise falls into her hands and she destroys it. Discovery traps her, her romantic tips are shattered, and there seems only one way to avoid it of the net – the pistols of her dad, the General.