Character Relationship Map: Keyhole

Characters

• Ulysses Pick (played by Jason Patric) — protagonist

  The central protagonist and gang leader who breaks into his haunted former home. He carries a drowned woman named Denny and attempts to open a series of locked doors to reach his wife, Hyacinth. As he...

• Hyacinth (played by Isabella Rossellini) — supporting

  Ulysses's estranged wife, confined to the master bedroom at the top of the labyrinthine house. She is chained to her bed alongside her father-in-law's ghost. Though initially involved with a man named...

• Calypso / Camille (played by Louis Negin) — supporting

  The ghost of Ulysses's father-in-law and the film's narrator. He explains the house's haunting nature and remains chained to Hyacinth's bed. He torments the gangsters, warns of Ulysses's dangerous shi...

• Denny (played by Brooke Palsson) — supporting

  A drowned young woman rescued by Ulysses who temporarily regains mobility and blindness. She acts as a psychic conduit, hearing Ulysses's thoughts and helping him visualize his repressed memories. Aft...

• Manners (played by David Wontner) — supporting

  Ulysses's only surviving son, initially held hostage and unrecognized by his father. He reveals his identity after freeing himself, attempts to revive his former girlfriend Denny, and eventually recon...

• Ogilbe (played by Kevin McDonald) — supporting

  A member of Ulysses's gang who meets a supernatural demise. After investigating a mysterious noise and leaving the group, he attempts to engage in a sexual act with a ghostly washerwoman, resulting in...

• Big Ed (played by Daniel Enright) — supporting

  The gang's ruthless second-in-command who openly challenges Ulysses's authority and plans. He is tormented by supernatural forces and ultimately faces retribution when Ulysses, having fully restored h...

• Ned (played by Darcy Fehr) — minor

Canonical Relationships

Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.

• Ulysses Pick → Ned (Family Father And Son) — Ned's death and the broken bowl embody Ulysses's unresolved family grief.

  Ulysses remembers Ned's death and accidentally breaking Ned's bowl, an act that deeply upset Hyacinth.

• Ulysses Pick → Ogilbe (Professional Gang Leader And Member) — Ogilbe follows the gang's operation but ignores Ulysses's supernatural warning.

  Ogilbe is identified as one of Ulysses's gang members. Ulysses warns him not to bother the ghosts before Ogilbe leaves to investigate a noise.

• Ulysses Pick → Big Ed (Power Gang Leader And Second-in-Command) — Big Ed formally serves Ulysses but increasingly challenges his authority.

  Big Ed is described as the gang's second-in-command. Ulysses orders him to remain in charge while the group waits.

• Calypso / Camille → Hyacinth (Family Chained Father And Daughter) — Their relationship combines familial dependence, resentment, and supernatural confinement.

  Calypso is Hyacinth's father and remains chained to her bed. He repeatedly begs Hyacinth to release him before she eventually files through his chains...

• Ulysses Pick → Calypso / Camille (Family Son-in-Law And Father-in-Law) — Their family connection is complicated by Calypso's ghostly presence and his opposition to Ulysses's actions.

  Calypso is identified as the ghost of Ulysses's father-in-law and narrates the history of the haunted house.

• Hyacinth → Manners (Family Mother And Son) — Manners remains emotionally connected to Hyacinth through memories of their family life.

  Hyacinth fondly remembers her son Manners, and Manners later recalls family memories involving Hyacinth in the house.

• Ulysses Pick → Manners (Family Father And Son) — Ulysses initially fails to recognize Manners, but their relationship becomes central to his recovered memory.

  Calypso reveals that the hostage is Ulysses's only surviving son, Manners. Manners later frees himself and reveals his identity to Ulysses.

• Ulysses Pick → Hyacinth (Romantic Estranged Spouses) — Their marriage is defined by separation, grief, buried memories, and a final confrontation.

  The house formerly belonged to Ulysses and his wife Hyacinth. Ulysses enters the house to find Hyacinth and remembers loving her despite feeling that...

• Manners → Denny (Romantic Former Lovers) — Their failed relationship becomes a tragic emotional thread within the haunted house.

  Manners reveals that he was in love with Denny, but she broke up with him and later drowned. He attempts to revive her.

Story Dynamics

Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.

• Big Ed → Ogilbe (Social Gang Colleagues) — Their connection is based on shared membership in the gang rather than a personal bond.

  Both Big Ed and Ogilbe are members of Ulysses's gang and remain with the group inside the surrounded house.

• Big Ed → Calypso / Camille (Conflict Supernatural Antagonists) — Calypso uses the haunted house's forces against the gang's rebellious second-in-command.

  Calypso torments Ed through supernatural flogging after Big Ed challenges Ulysses and remains in charge of the gang.

• Ulysses Pick → Denny (Alliance Rescuer And Psychic Guide) — Denny enables Ulysses to navigate his repressed memories and the house's locked rooms.

  Ulysses arrives carrying the drowned Denny. She can hear his thoughts and helps him visualize memories while he searches for Hyacinth.

Story Analysis

A dead gangster returns to his haunted former home, where locked rooms force him and his surviving son to confront family grief, memory, and forgiveness.

Plot Progression

1. Return to the Haunted House — Ulysses and his gang force their way into his former home while the police remain outside. Calypso explains that the house preserves sorrow, and Denny arrives as a drowned woman who can hear Ulysses's...
2. Violence Beneath the Memories — The gang's uncertain plan collapses as Big Ed challenges Ulysses and the house turns against the intruders. Ogilbe dies, Heatly is shot by furnace-fired bullets, and Ulysses exposes his conflicted lov...
3. Doors into Family Grief — Ulysses gathers Denny and the hostage and searches for Hyacinth through a series of locked doors. Denny helps him recover memories of Hyacinth, Ned, and the family's damaged past.
4. Death Reveals the Truth — Manners identifies himself as Ulysses's surviving son, while Denny is declared dead and briefly revived. Ulysses discovers that he is already dead and uses his restored memory to punish Big Ed.
5. A Room That Will Not Release Them — Hyacinth frees Calypso as Ulysses moves toward the master bedroom. Manners and Ulysses restore the family room, but the ghosts and gangsters fade only to leave Manners alone, unable or unwilling to de...