the film

During an after school dance class, Eliza gets noticed by a popular high school boy Emil. That night, she hooks up with him at a house party. Though she is initially excited about this, the next morning when she returns to school… things have changed. People won’t look her in the eye. Her best friend Sean mentions that people have “lost respect for her.”

That evening as she walks home, Eliza discovers a tucked away Brazilian Jiu Jitsu gym. As the bullying escalates at school and she does her best to hold things in, she starts to attend the gym more and more. It becomes her refuge, until the mounting pressure at school pushes her over the edge.