The Anthill

Lina has come home to the country of her childhood. Sent away from Colombia to England after her mother’s death 20 years before, she’s searching for the one person who can tell her about their shared past. She’s never forgotten Matty, her childhood friend and protector, who now runs The Anthill, a day-care refuge for the street kids of Medellin. Lina begins volunteering there, but her reunion with Matty is not what she hoped for. Medellin is entering a new era, and Matty appears to have taken the city’s attempts to redefine itself post-conflict to heart. He has no interest in discussing the past and his enigmatic behaviour puts Lina on guard.

And then, strange happenings start taking place at The Anthill: violent scratches appear on the inside of the supply closet door, kids make disturbing crayon drawings and insist they’ve seen a small boy with pointy teeth roaming around the yard. Could Lina have brought these disturbances with her? Is this a vision of the boy she once knew, or something more sinister? And what will her search for atonement cost Matty?