<p>They glide over the ice, ethereal, they take flight, sometimes they fall: a group of 15-year-old ice skaters deal with their daily life made of friendships, competitions, crushes, difficulties, doubts, choices, family conflicts. They are dominated by their very strict trainer, who borders on the sadistic. The first work by two documentary filmmakers, an atypical Bildungsroman which captures the nuances of growing up, makes no moral judgment, puts itself in the shoes of its young protagonists and admires their overflowing, contagious vitality.</p>
