 After failing to get help from this source as well, he slowly becomes more and more despondent.Caterina then finds out that Daniela and her friends don't like her and "tried to make her civilised", a disappointment which is compounded by a failed romantic liaison with a wealthy boy from Daniela's clique whom his grandmother forbids from seeing Caterina again.She then lashes out at Daniela and runs away from home only then taking comfort with her neighbor, a young Australian about her age.