Lara, a 15-year-old transgender girl who aspires to be a professional ballerina, moves with her supportive francophone father, Mathias, and younger brother to attend a prestigious Dutch-speaking dance academy. Undergoing hormone replacement therapy in preparation for sex reassignment surgery, she is frustrated by the slow progress of the treatment. At school, she tucks her penis with tape during ballet practices and experiences transphobic harassment from her classmates. Since the taping has caused an infection, she is denied the surgery for now, so she mutilates her penis with a pair of scissors. The film ends with a shot of Lara walking down a street in the sun.