But what is even more interesting is the conversations between Maria and her assistant Valentine. In these interactions, life imitates art as the text of the play begins to comment on the text of the film and vice versa. Like the Maloja Snake, the ebb and flow of the clouds personify the ebb and flow of age and identity. In these scenes we also realise that the relationship of Val and Maria is also like Sigrid and Helena. However this time, Maria is like Sigrid and Val is mirroring Helena because her job requires her to live for Maria the same as Helena obsesses to provide for Sigrid. Hence, we follow the inevitable change of from one character to another, of how Maria transitions to Sigrid, that is placed more like an attitude than anything else, to Helena, an embodiment of a fresh start all alone.
