Irene has a burning wish: to become a mother.

She is happily married to the priest Thomas, who already has the young daughter Isabella from a previous marriage, and whilst Irene loves her bonus daughter, she longs to have a child of her own. Having tried in vain for many years to become pregnant, they are now faced with starting fertility treatments.

At the same time a new family moves in next-door to their vicarage and Irene, who already has developed a habit of listening in to her husband’s confidential counseling sessions, begin to keep an eye on the neighbors.

Is everything on the other side of the fence really as perfect as it seems? Ought she tell the couple that the church gravedigger is peeking through their windows at night? And is it only in her imagination, or does Thomas have a bit too much chemistry with the neighbor woman? When Thomas begins to act strange and suddenly wishes to withdraw from their fertility treatment, Irene has to get to the bottom of it.

What is she not seeing? What is it that’s preventing her from becoming a mother?

Let the Little Children Come is an intense, psychological thriller about paranoia, couple relationships and violent desires.