Still Life

Everything changes when an uninvited guest crosses the threshold

The year is 1961, and all is quiet in the Dutch rural province of Overijssel. The bomb craters have been filled in, the buildings have been renovated, and the war is well and truly over. Isabel lives alone in her late mother's country house, and her life is exactly as it should be: governed by routine and discipline. But everything is turned upside down when her brother Louis brings his new girlfriend, Eva, to Isabel's doorstep—a guest who is apparently there to stay for the season...