Ela, a young actress, gets a role with the well-known theatre director Franz Kramer. The production is a great opportunity for Ela, but also comes with pressure. Kramer constantly oversteps Elas boundaries, and the situation worsens when Kramer sexually harasses her. Ela struggles to reconstruct her role as a self-confident character—and realizes that to do so, she has to take the same steps of self-empowerment in her real life.
In their autobiographical directorial debut, Marina Prados and Paula Knüpling tell painfully funny stories about their personal experiences with border transgression and sexual abuse from their time as actresses. Surprisingly raw and vulnerable at the same time, the two play with the boundaries between reality and fiction. A film about the blurred boundaries between character and performer, about consent and agreement, about the meaning of a “no” and about the invisible trauma behind abuse of power, sexual violence and emotional manipulation.
