Convinced that one of the neighbors has murdered his wife, Jeff, a professional photographer, whose leg has broken during photographing a race accident, so he has to stay at home, where he watches his neighbors from his rare window, investigates on the case, by receiving help from his girlfriend and nurse.
Beneath pointed dialogue, perceptive character development and tense plot twists, the movie plays like a breakpoint in our journey towards complete voyeurism.
In this brilliant movie about watching the neighbors, Alfred Hitchcock turns the lens on his audience. "We have become a race of Peeping Toms," notes one character not only commenting on Jeff's obsessive voyeurism but also that of the cinematic spectator.
