Irene’s Quiet Hours is an intimate portrait of Irène, a 97-year-old woman living alone in a small Belgian village. Twenty years after losing her husband, she continues to inhabit the home they once built together—a house filled with the echoes of a life shared, where time seems to soften rather than stop. Through her gestures, her rooms, and the light that moves across her walls, the work reflects on what it means to belong to a place, to remain faithful to memory even as the world outside shifts. Irène's solitude is not emptiness but devotion: to her past, to her house, and to the quiet rhythm of everyday prayer. “I pray,” she says, “for those without homes.” In her words and in her silence lies a gentle truth about care, loss, and the enduring tenderness of being at home in one’s own story.
