In a blue-walled bedroom, a seven year old girl watches her goldfish, plays with her dolls, draws pictures with her crayons.

Her mother brushes her hair, buttons her school uniform, zips up her skirt.

Her father leaves for work, kissing her mother good-bye.

These are the familiar rhythms of family life, but something is wrong; the girl feels it, sees it.

She remembers how things were when she was a little girl of three, and it is rarely like that anymore.

But the child does not have the words to express her emotions, and suspects that words themselves may be the problem.

So she stops talking...