Despite all the turmoil of the last year in the hospital, life outside has remained the same. The taxi driver who brought her to the institute is the same one who picks her up, serving as a final metaphor, implying that the radical changes in Susanna's thinking and personality are personal and away from the eyes of the world, which continue to work. as they always have done. The title of the film (and memoir) is taken from a painting by Vermeer, entitled Girl, Interrupted by Music. Looking at the paper we do not see the source of the distraction, nor does the elderly gentleman in the painting, whose relationship with the girl is not explained. Susanna says in the opening monologue that perhaps she is simply, a girl interrupted. The time spent at the institute was a life-changing event for Susanna, but only a small part of her overall life, an interruption in her journey towards self-efficacy and