Silence & Darkness
Silence & Darkness, also known under the title Touched, is a 2019 American thriller film written and directed by Barak Barkan in his directorial debut. It stars Mina Walker, Joan Glackin and Jordan Lage. The film was produced by Lyntone Productions. Synopsis Anna and Beth are siblings. Anna is blind and Beth is deaf. They provide much of each other's company and support. Each assists the other with tasks that would need hearing or sight to complete and the sisters appear to be almost completely dependent on each other, staying together most all of the time. They live in a small town with their germaphobic, widower Father, a physician who is having an affair with a married woman, Mrs. Long. On the surface they appear to be a normal family and neither sibling questions any of Father's actions, despite him drugging them at night and bathing them in the morning before feeding them breakfast. He also keeps a narrated journal in which he describes his daughters as if they were experiments. It isn't until a neighbor, Mrs. Bishop, discovers a human bone in the forest that Anna begins to question Father's actions, in specific asking about the death of their