Lena is a teenager girl spending her time in school, hanging with her best friend Roza and occasionally visiting clubs to dance. However, the situations she has to face in her house is quite difficult, since she has a handicapped brother, Bohdan, who becomes offensive regularly, and particularly when he feels he is mocked or pitied. His situation has led Lena's parents to focus their attention on him, neglecting her, and ignoring the facts that she is also tormented by her brother's situation. Her circumstances take a turn for the even worse, when Robo, a teacher in their school who also tutors her and helps her brother with his mobility issues, rapes her in her house during a tutoring session. Fed up with her situation, and feeling that she cannot tell anyone about the rape, neither her parents nor Roza, who always talks about sex, she commits suicide during her brother's birthday party. However, she fails the attempt and ends up in a psychiatric hospital.
Tereza Nvotova directs a film that,
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This tendency does not even stop in the scenes in the hospital, although it is restrained in the exterior shots. Additionally, Dvorak does a great job of portraying Lena's solitude, with a number of close shots that also highlight her vulnerability. In this aspect, the cinematography, as much as the whole film benefits the most from Dominika Zelenikova's acting, who is wonderful in a very demanding roles, since she is present in almost every scene in the film. Furthermore, she has to portray a number of difficult feelings and psychological statuses, without many words, but she succeeds in every aspect. The highlights of her performance, though, are the confrontation scenes, the only ones when she is so vocal and the final one, where she so eloquently expresses that everything is not