An elderly priest meets a lonely woman, a washerwoman in a poor mountain village forgotten by God and man. The woman desperately seeks an answer: permission to end her life or perhaps a reason to continue living. The priest, torn between duty and compassion, searches within himself for the truth that could redeem her.

Through sparse dialogues and endless silences that seem to echo in the gorges of imposing nature, The House of Others encapsulates the deep anguish of man in the face of the unspeakable, the inability of faith to answer the most essential questions of existence. With clear and simple language, charged with poetic intensity, Silvio D’Arzo signs a meditation on loneliness and human fragility. A masterpiece of twentieth-century Italian literature translated into Greek for the first time.

THE PRESS WROTE

A perfect story.
Eugenio Montale

A classic work of the 20th century.
Pier Paolo Pasolini