Ellens stopped talking. She thinks she may have killed her dad. Her brothers barricaded himself in his room. Their mother, a successful actress, carries on as normal. Were a family of light! she insists. But darkness seeps in everywhere and in their separate worlds each of them longs for togetherness. 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. n