Jonas Cornell is one of the leading young directors of the modern Swedish cinema. In his book, “Swedish Cinema,” Peter Cowie writes, “He is profoundly skeptical not only about human relationships but also about Swedish society, where affluence and property create a heirarchy as rigid as the English class system.” The story of Like Night and Day concerns a television announcer (played by Agneta Ekmanner, Cornell's wife), who lives with a young doctor but marries his boss, an imperious middle-aged professor. The Walker Art Center's introduction to the series, “The Emotional Landscape,” notes: “Like Antonioni, Cornell employs urban architecture and images of modern technology as a landscape for human relationships.... (His) fluid camera examines a television studio or hospital laboratory in a manner similar to Bergman's studies of faces; both filmmakers use the physical surface as an index of emotional crisis.”