When Life Changes (on hold)
Melania is a 13 year old girl. She wakes up one morning to the sound of an Uzis ricocheting of the roof of her house. Her parents rush her and her 5 month old sister outside to their river and into a boat where she is forced to leave them behind. Starting anew is harder than she thinks but in her head she remembers the words of her mother:"Life is full of disappointments and if you let it, it will destroy your optimistic spirit; don't let it do that to you."…