The dynamic between student and teacher can be a charged, intimate one even in its most appropriate form: As children, we spend so much time with our educators, and are so dependent on their attention and approval, that the relationship can evolve into fast loathing or quasi-familial affection — an impression, either way, that often lives far longer in the memory than whatever it is they taught us.
For naive 17-year-old Johanne (Ella Øverbye), an instant affinity with her new teacher Johanna (Selome Emnetu) begins with the similarity of their names, before she projects a far deeper emotional bond between them. Or perhaps she isn’t projecting at all.
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