Why didn’t you stay for me? is first of all the portrait of the director, Milou Gevers, who made as a child the same path of her little protagonists: one of her parents in fact committed suicide and she felt alone to face and to overcome this emptiness. With her uncomfortable questions the director helps the children to look inside themselves and express their pain. Therefore the documentary is doubly courageous, becoming for both and also for the audience a cathartic experience. A taboo is revealed through very well chosen and touching characters and surprising animation in this short documentary, that is never compassionate or compliant and keeps its tension constant without exploding into drama but creating a suspension of time and an intensity that strikes you deeply.