In the middle of the night, a young girl called the police because her parents wouldn’t wake up—and what officers found at the house stunned everyone.

It remained to be discovered who the man in the video was, what his relationship was with the father’s debts… and, above all, whether the attempted murder had been a warning, a reprisal… or simply the beginning of something worse.

What the police didn’t yet know was that the real key to the case wasn’t in the cameras, nor in the tampered boiler, but in a children’s notebook that Sofia had kept under her bed. A notebook that contained drawings that, unintentionally, were practically confessions in the form of pictures.

The next day, Sofia was taken to the temporary foster home. She had her backpack, her stuffed animal… and the notebook that no one had yet checked. When a caregiver opened it during the night, she discovered something disturbing: pencil drawings, seemingly innocent, but depicting situations that dangerously matched the girl’s statements.

In one of them, several faceless men stood in front of her house. In another, her father argued on the phone while her mother cried in the kitchen. And in the last one, the most disturbing, there was a drawing of her room, with her awake in bed, and a black figure coming down the stairs to the basement, where the boiler was.