When Nora and Torvald Helmer receive some surprise callers on Christmas Eve, they little suspect that these visitors will be the undoing of their marriage. But when Kristine Linde, a friend of Nora's, and Krogstad, an employee of Torvald's, reveal a secret that Nora had been keeping from her husband, Nora is surprised by her husband's selfish response to her compassionate gesture, and is left to question the truth of her marriage and what she wants from her life.

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Born in 1828, Henrik Ibsen was a Norwegian playwright and poet, often associated with the early Modernist movement in theatre. Determined to become a playwright from a young age, Ibsen began writing while working as an apprentice pharmacist to help support his family. Though his early plays were largely unsuccessful, Ibsen was able to take employment at a theatre where he worked as a writer, director, and producer. Ibsen's first success came with Brand and Peter Gynt, and with later plays like A Doll's House, Ghosts, and The Master Builder he became one of the most performed playwrights in the world, second only to William Shakespeare. Ibsen died in his home in Norway in 1906 at the age of 78.