The House Is Still Dark is a intense travel diary set in the Nicaraguan rainforest, following a local psychologist who attempts to help those afflicted by a mysterious mental disorder. The film unfolds through encounters that feel almost like poems: women explaining how spirits enter her in the forms of insects; elders telling stories of displacement and stolen land; young men guarding homes with rifles. Alongside these testimonies are images that are both wide and distant, as well as personal, captured with an old 16mm digital sensor camera. These moments blend with quiet shots of mist over the jungle, brief conversations with strangers, church gatherings, and, most importantly, footage that seeks to understand Ejas’s motivation to help his people—blurring the line between documentary and travelogue.