Ангелика

1880s, London. The Barton House is on the brink of collapse. Fragile and impressionable Constance Barton sees a ghost that encroaches on her daughter. Former military doctor, half-educated physician Joseph Barton sees the self-will and growing madness of his wife, who indulges her own hysteria. Four-year-old Angelika sees childhood fantasies, the incomprehensibility and simplicity of adults. So, what kind of phantom threatens an innocent child? The story of the ghost in the Barton house is told - each in their own way - by four characters in this scary tale. And yet, the tragedy is inexplicable, and all those who are hopelessly entangled in this everyday incomprehensible nightmare are doomed to seek answers in solitude. Vivisection, spiritualism, the birth of psychoanalysis, "family values" in the Victorian version and, finally, a hopeless search for truth - in the hypnotic novel "Angelica" by Arthur Phillips there will be no direct answers, there will be no unambiguous solution and no truth is promised if this truth is not found by the reader . And even then, the solution is by no means absolute.