On the cusp of coming of age, 17-year-old Lena (the remarkable Dominika Morávková-Zeleníková) has her confidence and autonomy shattered when a teacher – adored at school and the subject of her best friend’s crush – sexually assaults her during a home maths tuition visit. Unable to communicate her distress, convinced that no-one will believe her and filled with self-loathing, she is further traumatised when admitted to a youth ward in a psychiatric facility where her fellow patients freely lash out at one another amid brute institutional indifference.

With its striking visuals, Tereza Nvotová’s unsparing but compelling feature film debut is a searing indictment upon a patriarchal culture that matter-of-factly convinces women that their lives are lesser than men’s, and upon a grossly ineffective, even draconian, welfare system, especially where mental health is concerned.