Plot

Stricken by a perplexing case of hysterical laryngitis, silent young soprano Dido holes up in her grandmother's abandoned home. As family and friends struggle to understand, the unhealed, hideous wounds of the past come to light.

A young woman's lonely struggle to bring her voice back provokes her close persons' hysteria since they can't forgive her silent controversy. The heroine's denial causes a deep crisis into her intellectual family. The film unfolds by her meetings with her familiars in the old empty house where a forgotten diary of wounds and guilts is being revealed. The characters stand furious in front of the heroine's traumatic silence until the moment her mother decides to give an end to her daughter's isolation. The "revolutionary" family is shaken and conflicted, as a miniature of a generation who defended the right of free speech, but now stands in fear against the dispute of the charismatic yet silent child that it has created.—Yorgos Gkikapeppas

Stricken by sudden nervous aphonia, a perplexing case of hysterical laryngitis, young soprano Dido is inconsolable. And like a suffocating, invisible noose around her neck, the mysterious inflammation robs the ambitious opera student of her melodious voice only a few hours before the final exam. As a result, Dido holes up in her grandmother's abandoned home. As the emotionally fragile singer finds herself with her back to the wall, condemned to live a bleak life in debilitating silence, family and friends struggle to understand. Little by little, concern transforms into frustration, and suddenly, the unhealed, hideous wounds of the past come to light. Does the soul have a self-healing capacity? Can Dido's family handle the deafening silence of failure?—Nick Riganas