I was actually carrying out research for another film, well at least I though I was. But then I met this girl - Isabell - who told me about her experience of growing up in violence. She didn’t actually talk a lot, it was more Isabell's anger and the reflection in her eyes that made it impossible for me to forget her story. It brought me back to a memory from my own childhood. I grew up hearing my neighbour beating his wife in the apartment next door. Often when I was trying to sleep I could hear her screaming, only a cement wall separated me from her. I was never exposed to violence in my own family, but I could get, perhaps, get some kind of notion of how it is to grow up in violence. I decided I needed to learn more. I understood that there was an area within research focusing on children living in violence – children who hear, see and is confronted with domestic violence. I realised that it was a political issue and felt that this was something I wanted to delve deeper in, and I wanted to tell a story to raise the issue and work towards change.