In a provincial northern town, Nina, a shy and insecure young gymnast secretly adores Gio, another popular and easy-going girl from the town. When Gio notices Nina's awe of him, he decides to make an adept of her, in an ambiguous and abusive game, disorienting Nina, who, subjugated, finds herself at the mercy of Gio's manipulations and whims, which will bring her to a point of no return, from which she will never be able to free herself, even by changing her life and town.