Giulia Schelhas

I’ll Be Gone in June sympathetically occupies the emotional and physical world of sixteen-year-old German exchange student Franny (Naomi Cosma) and her newly acquired friends, all high school students in 2001 Las Cruces, New Mexico. Accepted with curiosity by the local teenagers, Franny settles into a predictable, fairly typical year for a young woman maturing and exploring options. Through her intimate and public interactions, Franny’s days unfold with a myriad of encounters through which she’ll develop a more mature awareness of herself and the new cultural environment into which she’s been thrust.