A ten year old girl is out of school for the summer and spends her time watching t.v., walking her dog and trying to get the attention of her mother. She is bored of having nothing to do, she doesn't like her mom's new boyfriend, and she tries to avoid the other kids in the neighborhood. These things are all true, yet they can't begin to describe the girl's inner experiences - we can only observe her from the outside, having our own reactions to events in her life while never really being able to know hers.
—David Collins