Winner of the European Discovery Award at the European Film Awards 2018, the Camera d'Or for Best First Feature and Queer Palm at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, and the London Film Festival's First Feature Competition Winner 2018. Determined 15-year-old Lara (Victor Polster) is committed to becoming a professional ballerina. With the support of her father, she throws herself into this quest for the absolute at a new school. Lara's adolescent frustrations and impatience are heightened as she realises her body does not bend so easily to the strict discipline because she was born a boy.