Fourteen year old Marina didn't know why she was sent away to school. Actually, that wasn't completely true.she knew it had something to do with the progress she hadn't made in the hospital. After all, she still didn't talk. Ande Marina knew her mother didn't want her at home. Then Marina started to write in a journal for english class. Bit by bit the trauma of her silence began to unfold as a shocking nightmare that continued to haunt her. But Marina refused to talk about it or to feel anything. Still, before she realized it, Marina began to feel a little-to reach out to some of the girls at school, to her favorite teacher, to her family-if only she could find the words...