ABOUT THE FILM
© 2007 USC SCA

LOGLINE
When a young girl is accidentally left behind at a desert gas station while on a road trip with her large family, she must finally find the courage to make her voice heard.

SYNOPSIS
It's 1981 and thoughtful, introverted, 12-year-old Margaret (Maggie) feels invisible sandwiched between the restless limbs of her eight, high-spirited siblings as they drive across the southern California desert in the family's aging Pontiac wagon.

Out of desperation, Maggie escapes her loneliness and the chaotic world of her family by entering the strangely beautiful world she sees through the viewfinder of her snap-n-shoot, plastic camera. However, she doesn't trust that what she sees is worthy of expressing, and as a result she never snaps a picture.

When the family stops at a rundown gas station in the middle of nowhere, Maggie's fear of being invisible is confirmed when she is accidently left behind. It is up to Maggie to decide whether the young girl who was left will be the same person who leaves.

FORMAT
Capture Format: Super 16 color (negative & reversal), blow up to 35mm
Screening Formats: 35mm/5.1 Digital Dolby, Digibeta, BetaSP, DVD
Length: 14:10