When presented with the opportunity to be cast in a lead role, an aging dancer must determine if her personal integrity outweighs her professional ambitions after experiencing a choreographer's unwanted sexual advances.
A young dancer attends a prestigious audition, prepared to do whatever it will take to achieve her long-term goal of becoming a professional choreographer.
The film examines girlhood as inherited performance-costumes worn before identity forms. Mona frames femininity as simultaneous nurture and constraint, exploring how intimacy between girls and garments becomes predetermined theatre. Clothing functions as ritual and control, dictating movement before self-knowledge arrives.