The Shadow Within is a dark fairy tale. In a groom and sinister atmosphere, little Maurice Dumont can’t escape his infernal reality dominated by an inhuman mother who rejects him, an absent father and a ghost brother who refuses to die. in a claustrophobic overwhelming environment, obsessed by dead and living presences, the struggle of the little main character -guilty of surviving to his twin brother- seems to have no way out, as death silently creeps into that old house in the middle of the countryside as if it was a long waited guest...