Conville & Walsh

It was a baby. A baby crying. Crying and crying and crying,’ she says, her face pale, her voice sharp with urgency. ‘It was so clear. Didn’t you hear it? You must have heard it!

Tim Ellison needs a place to live and when he finds a cheap room to rent in the perfect location in Sydney it seems almost too good to be true. The rent is cheap but the room comes with a condition. The owner of the house, the young and beautiful Anna London, has agoraphobia and is more or less housebound. Tim will be responsible for bringing food to the house, and helping with any other supplies she may need.

Anna is quiet, beautiful and inhibited and Tim struggles to get to know her. When odd and frightening things start occurring in the house – unexplained messes, bizarre graffiti on the interior walls, broken windows – he starts to wonder what he has got himself into. Anna finally begins to open up to Tim. As his feelings for her soften and develop into admiration, and even love, he learns about her tragic past and becomes increasingly embroiled in the mysterious world of Anna London and her sinister house.