[1] The film stars Manuela Vellés, Alain Hernández, Maggie Civantos and Claudia Placer.

The film is based on the adaptation from a novel with the same title The Influence, written by popular English novelist Ramsey Campbell in 1988.

[2] The film was streamed via Netflix on 11 October 2019 and opened to mixed reviews from critics.

[3][4][5] Alicia (Manuela Vellés) has returned to the family home which she fled as a child.

Along with her husband, Mikel (Alain Hernández) and her nine-year-old daughter, Nora (Claudia Placer), Alicia seeks to rebuild her life while being forced to confront a past she believed forgotten and a body that refuses to die: that of Victoria (Emma Suárez), the possessive family matriarch who has fallen into a deep coma and barely survives on life support.