Inspired by the brutal beating and murder of Kitty Genovese in Queens, New York, SILENT SCREAM opens with the savage rape of sixteen-year old Aiyana outside of the Southwark Philadelphia projects while onlookers gawked from their apartments without lifting a finger to defend her.Aiyana is impregnated by her rapist, and seventeen years later her daughter Nita suffers the same fate-gang-raped by three teens while project tenants looked on.SILENT SCREAM deals with the fate of those cowardly onlookers and the secret both Aiyana and Nita possess.