After years of gruelling studio sessions, relentless touring and hard partying, 29-year-old musician Maja succumbs to a distinctly twenty-first-century affliction: burnout. Unable to bear the pressure and weight of fame, she moves back in with her mother and takes a part-time job at a local secondary school. Colleagues and friends gradually draw her out of a debilitating depression, while her new reality teaches her to see both life and herself afresh. With a heroine who might have stepped out of a film by Joachim Trier or Éric Rohmer, this warmly received Cannes debut gently suggests that happiness may lie in letting go of crushing ambitions and embracing more modest expectations.
