Director: Niko Volonakis
A missing artist, a two-decade-old string of murders, and a journalist who refuses to let either stay buried — Lyvia's House builds its mystery from the ground up, one uncomfortable answer at a time.
What is Lyvias House about?
The story follows a young journalist chasing the disappearance of a striking artist, a case that at first looks like nothing more than a woman who walked away from her old life. The deeper she digs, though, the more the trail folds back on itself, pointing toward a series of killings that happened twenty years earlier and were never fully explained. Piece by piece, present-day silence and past violence start to look like two versions of the same story, and the journalist finds herself pulled into a history that the people around her would rather leave alone. Billed as inspired by true events, director Niko Volonakis leans on slow-burn dread and a fractured sense of time rather than jump scares, letting its mystery-drama-thriller mix breathe across a longer, deliberate runtime. Tara Nichol Caldwell carries the investigation as its emotional center, with Joshua Malekos and Ann Marie Gideon among the figures whose pasts refuse to stay hidden.
Cast & crew
Tara Nichol Caldwell takes on the journalist at the center of the investigation, working opposite Joshua Malekos and Ann Marie Gideon as the film widens its circle of suspects and witnesses. Deborah Tucker and Brit Zane round out an ensemble drawn mainly from American independent film, giving the small-town setting an unpolished, close-to-the-ground texture.
Context & significance
Released in 2024 and running close to two hours, Lyvia's House takes its time with a genre mix of drama, thriller, mystery, and fantasy elements rarely combined in a single package. Its true-events framing sets it apart from purely invented mysteries, giving the twenty-year-old crime at its core a weight that a fictional cold case might not carry on its own.
Where & how to watch
Lyvia's House streams on K-Time with a free account login, and comes with Persian dubbing plus Persian subtitles for viewers who prefer to follow the mystery in Farsi. Every part of the K-Time experience, from browsing the catalog to the player controls, is built in Farsi for the Iranian diaspora, so nothing about the interface breaks the mood once the film begins.