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One girl's journey. By bus, by lorry, into the sound of gun-shots, through adolescence and across borders.

About the Author

Writer and director Estelle Savasta runs 'Hippolyte a mal au coeur', a company creating ground-breaking bilingual work based in France. Her first play Seule dans ma peau d'ane received acclaim at the 2008 Molieres awards. Going Through (originally Traversee) is her second play. Kirsten Hazel Smith grew up in France to Scottish parents, and trained as an actor at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She is a bilingual reader for the Cross Channel Theatre Group which promotes French new writing in the UK.