Darkness Between Us
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Married for two years, Ashar Gillani and his wife Rania Ashar Gillani are still deeply in love.
When they take a three week trip from their home in the US to visit his ancestral home, things take a strange and dark turn.
The home is inhabited by more than the joint Gillani family, and 'darkness' seems to reign it and its residents.
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