Texas, 2006. After a career-ending ballet injury, Angela,
a college freshman, drifts through school and hollow
sorority rituals. Her world shifts when she encounters Alex,
a magnetic wrestler. Angela abandons her obligations and
follows him to his hometown, where they connect over the
rare transcendence experienced in pushing the body to its
limit, in wrestling and ballet alike. After this fleeting, enigmatic
encounter, Angela returns home for Christmas, when her
debutante ball is set, a tradition she had always found vacant.
Increasingly unmoored, Angela searches for a new kind of
transcendence, like what she felt in ballet and with Alex.
Things shift for Angela when she learns the debutante bow
and gracefully performs it – ecstasy imbuing her movements.
Her fervour infects the others, and what seems to begin as
conformity becomes an awakening. As storms bear down,
the rituals of high society culminate in a reckoning as Angela
breaks open the social order she was meant to uphold.