to Gia, who he considers equally responsible. Henry sees her as a misguided child who did not have the benefit of his parenting. This is the night he intends to change that. Gia reveals a spiritual side which Henry views as hypocrisy. She endures Henry's ridicule and abuse as she has done in her past with other parental figures in her life. They deal with each other as if it was a dysfunctional father-daughter relationship they shared. Gia becomes defiant. Henry responds by dragging Gia into his missing daughter's bedroom. While captive, Gia draws a connection between this violence, and the violence and abuse of her own childhood. She begins to identify with Henry's missing daughter. Henry exposes a mentally twisted and unbalanced side. Gia wants to understand this abusive person who could have been her father. She wants to learn more about her disjointed past even if it's through her abusive captor. Gia questions Henry about his relationship with his daughter. He confesses that he had abused her. It becomes clear to Gia that his abuse had gone further than she ever could have imagined. Cast Kristen Ruhlin as Gia Charles Gorgano as Henry Luke Sabis as Joe Music According to Sabis, something that the characters of Gia and Henry share is a certain level of discomfort in dealing with silence. Because of traumatic events they each hold in their past, neither character is comfortable alone with their own thoughts. These characters always have a TV or radio on, at all times. Originally, Director Luke Sabis had planned not to have any scored music in the film. He wanted the background sounds of the TV and radio to be the score for these troubled characters. When he got deeper into the production, he realized he was being too idealistic with his vision and that some moments could be brought out more with music. Not having the budget to hire someone, Director Sabis fell back on his own musical background, (playing in rock bands earlier in his life) and wrote and performed the score himself. The intention of the scored music was to accentuate the internal emotional lives of Gia and Henry. Reception Missing Child was an official selection of the Boston International Film Festival, Big Island Film Festival, Dances with Films, and the Beyond the Beaten Path Film Festival. In Boston, the film won awards for Indie Soul Best