The Crossing (2021) character relationship network mapped with AI analysis. Explore the connections, alliances, and conflicts between characters.
A young refugee who flees her destroyed village with her younger brother. She continues drawing to preserve memories of home, resists the loss of her identity, and later becomes seriously ill while tr...
An older version of Kyona who remembers her childhood and narrates the story through the drawings she has made throughout her life.
Kyona's younger brother and fellow refugee. He becomes skilled at stealing during their journey, is separated from Kyona, and later joins the traveling performers after being rescued during a storm.
A performer who teaches Kyona and other children how to perform for the traveling camp.
The leader of a traveling performers' camp who rescues and protects displaced children. She shelters one child under a dress during winter and secretly guides the group toward the border.
A member of the traveling troupe who helps maintain the circus and supports the camp's performances.
An adult in the strange household that takes in the displaced children and attempts to erase their identities by imposing new names and family roles.
An adult in the household that confines the children, controls their behavior, and attempts to replace their identities with imposed names and roles.
Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.
Erdewan teaches children to perform within Madame's camp, whose members work under Madame's protection while traveling toward the border.
Erdewan teaches Kyona and other children how to perform in Madame's traveling camp.
Kyona is described as living in Novi Varna with her family, including Father, before the village is attacked and destroyed.
Old Kyona remembers her childhood through drawings she has made throughout her life, while Kyona's childhood experiences constitute the remembered sto...
Kyona and Adriel flee Novi Varna together, and the plot later explicitly describes them as siblings when they reunite at Madame's camp.
Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.
Shaké and the rest of the troupe help maintain the circus after Kyona joins Madame's traveling camp.
Madame rescues Adriel after a storm, hides him under a dress during winter, and later incorporates him into the camp's performers.
Kyona reaches Madame's traveling camp, where Madame protects displaced children and secretly moves the group toward the border.
Maxime participates in the household regime that gives Adriel a new identity and demands that the children call the adults by parental names.
Adriel is taken into the della Chiusa household, where the children are renamed and subjected to imposed roles.
Maxime joins Florabelle in forcing the children to use the names Peter and Janet and to call the adults Daddy and Mommy.
Florabelle and Maxime take the children into their household, give them new names, and impose humiliating control over them.
A displaced child's memories, family bonds, and fragile alliances sustain her through violence, identity loss, illness, and the search for safety.
Directed by Florence Miailhe
The Crossing (2021) · 7.2/10 · adventure, animation, drama
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