Death in the Shadows

(1985)

87 minutes.

Film / Drama / Foreign

Directed by Vivian Peters

Cast: Maayke Boulten and John Leysen

Country: Netherlands

18-year old Valerie and her mother Trudy live together in rural Oostdijk, a quiet little village near Amsterdam. When Trudy comes home one night, she gets run over by a car. Dead. The autopsy reveals she has never bore a child. Soon after more strange facts are beginning to turn up. While police inspector Mellema hunts down the car driver, Valerie starts searching for her real parents, both leading to the same sad truth.