“Just married. Bored already. Hedda Gabler longs to be free.”

Hedda Gabler is a woman whose delusions of grandeur and anticipations of her future have been dashed, forcing her into a marriage and a home she does not want. In an attempt to grasp some semblance of control over her life and the lives of others, she constructs a prison for herself that she must escape.

After returning from their honeymoon, HEDDA and JORGEN TESMAN return to an empty home funded by Jorgen’s aunt JULIANA, the sinister JUDGE BRACK, and the banks. Soon MRS. ELVSTED and EILERT LOVBORG enter the Tesman world, the latter being a recovering alcoholic who has just returned to society with a new book. Hedda, in her boredom, meddles excessively, wrecking the lives of those around her as well as her own.