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Fourteen-year-old Leila is used to being bullied at school. Her tangled hair, her dirty clothes, her broken phone, and her love of science and excellent grades all become the subject of ridicule. But no one knows what Leila's life is really like. A flooded apartment with no electricity, accessible only through a window. An insane mother who rarely comes home and never calls her by her first name. A younger brother that Leila has to take care of. The rawness, the hunger, the indifference. When the school announces a biome video contest, Leila takes the teacher's camera and films her own house: the rotten floor, the black mold on the walls, the mushrooms in the dresser drawer, the disconnected refrigerator where insects have bred. The video hits the Net, and the truth about Leila is revealed to all. But is she ready for her life to change? Translated with DeepL.com/Translator (free version)