Ellen's stopped talking.
Welcome to America is a scintillating portrait of a sensitive, strong-willed child and a young mind in the throes of trauma, a family on the brink of implosion, and the love that threatens to tear them apart..
But darkness seeps in everywhere and in their separate worlds each of them longs for togetherness.
We're a family of light! she insists.
Their mother, a successful actress, carries on as normal.
Her brother's barricaded himself in his room.
She thinks she may have killed her dad.
Ellen's stopped talking