Character Relationship Map: NightMare

Characters

• Mona (played by Eili Harboe) — protagonist

  She is the central protagonist, renovating a neglected apartment with Robbie while suffering recurring nightmares, isolation, exhaustion, and sleep paralysis. She hides a pregnancy, later reveals her...

• Robbie (played by Herman Tømmeraas) — protagonist

  He is Mona's partner and co-owner of the neglected apartment, although his work keeps him away while she struggles alone with frightening dreams. Their relationship deteriorates over Mona's hidden pre...

• Aksel (played by Dennis Storhøi) — supporting

  He runs the Somnia Clinic and explains sleep paralysis, hallucinations, physical paralysis, lucid dreaming, and the sensation of nocturnal attack to Mona. He previously treated Siren and claims that c...

• Siren (played by Gine Therese Grønner) — supporting

  She was a woman from Mona's building who suffered violent nightmares and sleepwalked before falling from the building under unclear circumstances. Aksel had treated her, while David says she believed...

• David (played by Preben Hodneland) — supporting

  He reveals the darkest account of Siren's experiences to Mona. According to him, Siren believed a nightly attacker later tried to kill her after the Baby's birth, so he and Siren drugged the Baby and...

Canonical Relationships

Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.

• Aksel → Siren (Professional Former Clinician And Patient) — Aksel's earlier treatment of Siren connects his clinic to the building's disturbing history.

  Mona learns that Aksel also treated Siren, who suffered violent nightmares and sleepwalked.

• Mona → Aksel (Professional Patient And Clinician) — Aksel becomes Mona's controversial specialist and instructor in nightmare control.

  Mona visits the Somnia Clinic, where Aksel explains sleep paralysis, examines her, and guides her through lucid-dreaming exercises.

• Mona → Robbie (Romantic Partners) — They are a couple whose shared home project is undermined by reproductive and emotional conflict.

  Mona and Robbie purchase and renovate the apartment together. Their relationship is strained by Mona's hidden pregnancy and later abortion.

Story Dynamics

Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.

• David → Aksel (Conflict Opposing Views) — David's warning places his account against continued reliance on Aksel's controversial practice.

  Mona prepares to seek Aksel's help despite warnings that he is dangerous and has been struck off.

• Mona → Siren (Unknown Shared Nightmare Connection) — Their experiences form a possible recurring pattern linking women in the building.

  Mona learns that Siren lived in the same building and suffered violent nightmares, while Mona suspects that the building's women and their nightmares...

• David → Mona (Narrative Informant And Seeker) — David provides Mona with the darkest explanation of the building's nightmare history.

  David reveals Siren's account of the nightly attacks and warns Mona that the Baby must be dealt with while it is still weak.

• Siren → David (Alliance Secret Allies) — They cooperate in a desperate and concealed attempt to deal with the perceived threat surrounding the Baby.

  David says that he and Siren drugged the Baby and made its death look like crib death.

Story Analysis

Mona's attempt to understand recurring nightmares exposes connections between a disturbing apartment, troubled women, and an unresolved threat surrounding a Baby.

Plot Progression

1. A Home with a Buried Past — Mona and Robbie buy and renovate a neglected apartment. The property's connection to a deceased pregnant woman makes their planned home increasingly disturbing.
2. Nightmares Behind Closed Doors — While Robbie is away, Mona becomes isolated, exhausted, and frightened by recurring nightmares. Her concealed pregnancy and later abortion intensify the couple's emotional distance.
3. The Mare and the Clinic — A lecture about the Mare leads Mona to Aksel's Somnia Clinic. Aksel explains sleep paralysis and trains her to remain conscious during nightmares.
4. Siren's Unquiet History — Mona learns that Aksel treated Siren, a woman from the same building who suffered violent nightmares and sleepwalking. Clinic records suggest that childbirth and alleged possession are connected to th...
5. The Baby's Unresolved Threat — David recounts Siren's nightly attacks and the attempt to conceal the Baby's death. Mona and Robbie then have a final bitter argument, while Mona remains determined to uncover the truth.