In the dead of night, she returns—drunk, heartbroken, and haunted. As her family sleeps close together in the lounge, trying to feel safe, the air thickens with an unsettling presence. Her daughter listens helplessly as the woman cries out in her sleep, suffocating under the weight of a nightmare she can’t escape. When she finally wakes, gasping and terrified, she swears something was sitting on her chest—a veiled woman, a watching man, a smiling boy with eyes full of torment.
The Book of Leaves is a deeply emotional and chilling story about the echoes of trauma, ancestral shadows, and the unseen forces that pass through generations. Blending raw family bonds with a creeping supernatural tension, Ata crafts a tale that is both intimate and unsettling, where the boundaries between the living and the otherworldly are paper-thin.
