Some houses keep secrets. Others keep you.

Leonard and Bonnie have done everything right—new city, new jobs, a fresh start in a house that’s affordable, well-located, and just a little bit strange. The kind of strange you can live with. The kind you tell yourself will fade once the boxes are unpacked.

But houses have memories.

As Leonard struggles with anxiety, unemployment, and a growing sense of dislocation, Bonnie throws herself into control, certainty, and order. Cracks begin to show—not just in their marriage, but in the walls, the floors, and the spaces the house seems reluctant to reveal. A stain appears where it shouldn’t. Smells linger. Flies gather. Dreams bleed into waking hours.

The longer they stay, the harder it becomes to tell where stress ends and something far older begins. The house listens. It responds. And it seems deeply invested in the people who live inside it.

Home Is Where the Heart Is is a slow-burn psychological horror about intimacy, power, and the quiet violence of resentment. It explores what happens when a relationship is already failing—and the place meant to shelter it decides to take sides.

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