Film

In a House, At Night

Director

Tomás Paiva Ferreira

Year

2023

Alice and Lynn, mother and daughter, struggle with their existence in a women's shelter.

On Halloween night, in a women’s shelter, 7-year-old Lynn sulks about missing her old house and dares to leave her mother’s bed in a tantrum, hurting her. Separated and alone, the young girl re-encounters fear as witness of the asleep victims' nightmares, while Alice, her mother, dangerously ponders about calling back her husband so to give Lynn her family again…