Girl in Flight

SILVIA, a determined eleven year old girl from a small town in Tuscany, boards a train alone going to Rome. When asked by a mother sitting nearby why she is alone, Silvia responds 'my parents are very modern and leave me to do as I wish.' Two months earlier with her family, we see Silvia's mother incapacitated by a severe episode of recurring depression, and her father is of little help. At her breaking point, after another negative response about a promised trip to Rome, Silvia gathers her things and leaves... alone. On the train, she meets EMINA, a smart, defiant 13 year old gypsy girl, and when they arrive in Rome's vast Termini Station, she follows Emina as she disappears down a dark stairway.