At least the kids have each other. That seems to be the one thing stopping this scary-looking woman, who comes across like a cold-blooded update on the evil-stepmother archetype, from doing something really cruel to one of them. Already she seems to favor Lukas over his brother Elias, refusing to speak to the latter and demanding absolute quiet while she recovers in a house that, while elegant, seems to have been decorated by a psychopath.