

The Woman in the Wall

When Lorna Brady, a survivor of one of Ireland's Magdalene Laundries, wakes to find a corpse in her house, she has no idea who the dead woman is or if she's responsible for the apparent murder, because she has long suffered from extreme bouts of sleepwalking.
Through a story of intrigue that has some flashes of Gothic horror at the beginning, the denunciation of the abuses of the Catholic Church in the Magdalene asylums in Ireland is reflected in the exposure of the protagonist's traumas. The woman inside the wall is the representation of inner demons and trauma, the need to break the wall to access the most hidden corners of memory. There are notable performances and a tone that sometimes resembles dark humor, in the style of the Coen brothers, but above all it builds solid characters and a mystery that remains constant.