Plot
A successful Wall Street trader returns to Britain with her family, but her new home in the countryside contains a disturbing secret. Her understanding of this secret is complicated by her husbands difficulty and loss of job, which in trying to hide he uses gaslighting to trick her into believing she is going insane. Her son Thomas's new friend Tobias who has the same name as the little boy who was murdered in the house 30 years ago makes knowing what is truth and what is a delusion difficult and clever.
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