She is effectively playing a number of different Sophies: the prewar girl, terrified of her reactionary, antisemitic father; the young woman being herded into the camp; the fierce, self - hating survivor whose every
ounce of energy is devoted to suppressing the memory of her «choice»; and then the postwar woman of mystery, who
finds herself
sharing her life
with a damaged bully, who loves her in his own way.