girl sees man in casket with windows

Following an unexpected tragedy, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe meets a nine year old boy named Cole Sear, who is hiding a dark secret.

This making-of piece examines the various guiding elements of the story and various aspects of the film that hint to its surprising ending.

A man’s death awakes a sense of curiosity in Nellie, a girl who discovers empathy by mourning a stranger.

A man returns from his wife's funeral and from the balcony notices a young woman in the house opposite. Fascinated by this image, he begins to stare intently into her life — with routine, passions and the light that does not fade in the night. What does this observation become — an unhealthy obsession, an opportunity to open the soul to new perspectives, or just an escape from loneliness and a ghostly substitute for the meaning of life?

A young woman gets ready for a funeral.