Donna turns her head back towards the lens and gazes out (note the direction – she wants ‘out’ of Silver Springs), her expression unmistakeably sad or bored or perhaps tired. But Barreto is not so foolish as to rely on the communicative capacity of the human face! He cleverly reinforces the moment with a clarifying line of voice-over: ‘I still had my mind on a different life, beyond Silver Springs.’
