Important things seem to arrive fast and unexpectedly, like my first role in a film. No one would have thought that after fourteen unsuccessful castings last year I would land my first job on the big screen with a self-tape shot in my parents’ backyard during my holidays.

After a few calls from my agent and sooner than expected I'm heading to the studios. It is dark outside and I am sitting at the back of a car looking at the city lights through the smoked windows. It has been raining and I can´t help to shiver slightly when Tracy Chapman sings “…I had a feeling that I belonged, I had a feeling I could be someone" on the radio.

Jenna is waiting for me with an umbrella. She welcomes me and takes me to my trailer where she explains the agenda for the day: costume fitting (trousers too tight), hair and make-up (they complement my ‘good’ hair), lunch (salmon, salad and white rice), visit to the director and producers (in costume) who are on set shooting some scene.

By the time all the business has been completed, the day in gone and it's dark again. I am taken back to the trailer, undress, and jump in the same car that brought me in the morning and which will take me back home. At my arrival, my neighbour Shaan watches me come out of the car with smoked windows. He recognizes me and holds the door for me. Inside the elevator he asks if I had a good day and with a single impulse I display the thirty-two teeth inside my mouth. He smiles back.