Moonlight (2002)

The Dutch movie “Moonlight” follows a young girl name Claire (Laurien Van den Broeck), an isolated girl who, as we first see her, has just gotten her period. Claire lives with her wealthy adopted parents in a luxurious house in the woods, near an omnipresent airport; the home’s location is a source of angst for all, and the psychiatrist father has already made arrangements to move the family back to the city. On the same day Claire gets her period, she discovers a young foreign boy hiding in the shed. The boy has been shot by drug dealers who had used him as a mule to carry drugs into the country. Now that they no longer have any use for him, the drug dealers shoot the boy twice, but he survives despite the odds. Instead of informing her parents, the oddball Claire decides to take care of the boy’s wounds herself; then, at the eve of the family moving, Claire runs away with the boy, even as the drug dealers circle the area looking for them.
“Moonlight” gives the impression of being a crime thriller in its first few minutes, but quickly turns into an adolescent story about Claire’s inability to come to terms with her life and her past as an abandoned child. Despite the love of her new family, Claire is unable to forget how she came into the world. The appearance of the boy (who is never given a name) is a reminder to Claire, who promptly takes charge of the situation and treats the boy more like a child rather than an equal. Oh, and the maturing Claire also takes the opportunity to use the boy to experiment her newly discovered sexuality.