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THE NEXT NIGHT. 19:30

Sasha is stretched across the 2-seater, her parents are sitting on the couch. They’re watching TV coverage of Sudanese refugees fleeing for their lives.

Her mother takes in a deep breath.

“Those poor people. Humans can be so smart, but in some ways we never learn.”

“What’s it help to just keep saying that? I’m going to my room.”

Sasha sits at her computer for twenty minutes, randomly checking out Facebook. She looks up at her pin-board. And stops.

Let me give it a go.

She starts typing.

She wants to talk to all the good people in the world. She wants to say:

DO SOMETHING! WE CAN STOP THIS!!!

So she writes an email. One page long.

And she sends it to her small circle of friends.

And that’s how this whole big thing gets started. As simple as that. On a Tuesday evening at 8.20pm. In a bedroom, in a house, in a suburb in Australia.