It's a fusion of word and film that has taken the interior life of a teenage girl, and a small town on the Western edge of the United States, and placed them at the center of the world.

FORBES: Medialand

At the same time, Todenhofer was starting to wonder if there wasn't a downside to plucking a frightened and anxious girl from a shanty town on the edge of Baghdad and exposing her to life in the West in short bursts that were hard for her to make sense of.

BBC: Marwa's story: 10 years since the bomb fell

Happy Now tells the story of a policeman (Gruffudd) who arrives in the small Welsh town and becomes involved in the unsolved murder of a girl 14 years earlier.

BBC: A dog's life for Ioan

It then showed the last images of the little girl as she left the town's leisure centre after a swimming lesson.

BBC: April Jones in the leisure centre

In June last year they rescued two people, including a 13-year old girl kidnapped by the LRA from the village of Kidi, about 12km from the town of Yambio, close to the DR Congo border.

BBC: Joseph Kony victims back online campaign

Two 16-year-old members of the town's powerhouse high school football team are charged with sexually assaulting a girl after a series of parties in August.

CNN: Teen in Ohio video 'ashamed and embarrassed,' lawyer says

Consider a case report in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery of a three-year-old girl who fell into an icy fishpond in a small Austrian town in the Alps.

NEWYORKER: The Checklist