House of Mirrors (2024)

I’ve discovered that every mirror reflection is seven nanoseconds late; it’s certainly a very short delay, but it is measurable—a distortion that the eye doesn’t perceive, yet it’s still there. If one walks in front of a mirror, for those seven nanoseconds, there’s no reflection to be seen. I imagine that this seven-second distortion multiplies with the number of mirrors.

For twenty years, Rose has run her own hair salon while raising her children on her own. At around fifty, she hangs up her scissors, moves to East Iceland, and establishes a café in the house of Lisa, her father’s childhood home, where her grandmother Katrin once worked as the housekeeper.

While guests immerse themselves in the life of Lisa, a young woman who lay paralyzed on a bench under the kitchen wall there in the mid-20th century, Rose bakes for the café and reflects on her grandmother, who cared for Lisa and managed the household.

A powerful story in which the lives of women from two different eras intertwine in unexpected ways, amidst mirrors within the same house.

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