Eventually, it transports Flint to Northern Ireland and its violent troubles.
For five days this week, those Protestant residents have been protesting girls like Amanda passing through, although Catholics have been using this route for the past 30 years of Ulster's violent Troubles.
For PBS' weekend network show Religion and Ethics Newsweekly I've been reporting on the town's special place in the violent "Troubles" of the past few decades, and in the story of Ulster's peacemaking process that has now largely displaced that violence.
The eleven NLES items that are comparable between these three surveys are: gambling problem; alcohol and/or drug related problem; witness to violence; abuse or violent crime; trouble with the police; divorce or separation; not able to get a job; lost job, redundant, sacked; death-family/close friend; serious illness or disability; and serious accident.
There might be the sense of domestic unease, a violent husband, troubled children?
Four months after Mr. Chávez was briefly ousted in a violent uprising, trouble is stirring again as Venezuelan society has grown more polarized, and both the president's supporters and his adversaries talk of looming conflict.
Balkan governments want neither extreme nationalists nor violent Islamists causing trouble.
Yet Ms Sharmila's case, like the wretched condition of Manipur, the most violent of seven troubled north-eastern states, is a national embarrassment.Ms Sharmila began her protest in response to the killing of ten Manipuris by paramilitary troops.
He thinks his missing father, a small-time bookie, who walked out one night to buy some cigarettes and never returned, has been 'whacked' by the Mob, and his adolescence is violent and darkly troubled.
Psychological assessments of men in solitary confinement at Pelican Bay indicated high rates of anxiety, nervousness, obsessive rumination, anger, violent fantasies, nightmares, trouble sleeping, as well as dizziness, perspiring hands and heart palpitations.
To date, Judy Golding's memoir is one of a mere handful of autobiographical accounts by writers' and artists' daughters, often describing troubled, violent or sexually predatory figures – such as Daphne du Maurier's Gerald du Maurier: A Portrait, Susan Cheever's Home Before Dark, Angelica Garnett's Deceived With Kindness, and Julia Blackburn's The Three of Us.
