Life in Rome’s suburbia can be truly tough, especially for a young girl who has no one to help her. The physical and psychological degradation of the protagonist teenager is captured by a camera into which the characters gaze directly - a testament to our modern voyeuristic lens, lustful, always ready to judge and condemn, but rarely willing to understand or help. Denise has the ability to make the viewer feel uncomfortable, which perhaps is exactly how we should feel in the face of the abuse of media exposition.
