Alisa Bloemendaal

Maya and Sem’s lives are intertwined. The two 17-year-old girls are like yin and yang: Sem lives for the future, Maya conversely lives in the here and now. One breezy summer’s evening, the two companions gaze up at the starry sky side by side. Sem clasps her ball, Maya her joint. There is some melodious music in the background. Everything is right, until the beat drops. Fate strikes promptly and ruthlessly.

Zaya has never been friends with Livie, who seems to be her opposite in every way imaginable. Where Zaya is quiet and somewhat lonely, Livie is popular and outgoing. They seem to have nothing in common, but when they start a tentative collaboration on a poetry film project at their international art academy where they portray a pair of lovers, they find themselves irrevocably drawn to each other—both on and off camera. On the other side of the wall, Quinn, Zaya’s housemate and best friend, undergoes a gender journey as they explore their relationship to masculinity while unraveling what it means to be non-binary.