A middle-aged couple gets one more chance from fate to put up a girl, the employ as a housekeeper, after they lost their daughter who had died in an accident. Anna, the dumb girl’s presence in the house seems to change everything. Can the couple use the unexpected opportunity? Can the sins of the past be made good? Is there anything like an innocent lie? /Anna, a mute teenager, takes a job as housekeeper to a wealthy but unhappy couple, who quickly instil her as the heart of their fractured household. All three glimpse the possibility of redemption – but when Anna falls in love, the idyll is threatened, and tensions invade. Ravishingly shot in black and white, this is a compelling, mysterious character study, in the rich tradition of Bela Tarr.