The House with Laughing Windows

“Today I portrayed the shameless one as she died...”

In a small, isolated village in the Ferrara province, a church holds a controversial mural that the locals would rather not discuss. Stefano (Lino Capolicchio), a young restorer, is commissioned to save it, and the more he works, the more evasive the people around him become. Pupi Avati shoots the flat northern countryside in grainy, ordinary light, so the dread comes from how plain everything looks.