Hypnotic and disquieting, The Listeners, Leni Zumas’s debut novel, is about not looking at things—loneliness, guilt, Iraq war footage, a sister’s death—and what happens when these things insist on being seen. From the first line the prose is glorious: honest and hallucinatory—like a lucid dream. The wonderfully talented Luca Dipierro created a trailer that brings to life the strangeness and beauty of Leni’s book.

The Listeners from Luca Dipierro on Vimeo.