Produced by Academy Award nominee Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth), The Orphanage centers on Laura (Belen Rueda, The Sea Inside) a mother who purchases her beloved childhood orphanage with dreams of restoring and reopening the long abandoned facility as a place for disabled children. Once there, Laura discovers that the new home and mysterious surroundings near the ocean awaken her son Simon's imagination, but the boy starts to spin a web of fantastic tales and not-so-innocent games. This troubling web begins to disturb Laura, drawing her into the child's strange universe which resonates with echoes of long-forgotten, deeply troubling memories of her own childhood. As the opening day draws near, tension builds within the family. Her husband remains skeptical, believing that Simon is making everything up in a desperate bid for attention.
Slowly, Laura becomes convinced that something long-hidden and terrible is hiding in the old house, just waiting to emerge...
