A Layup

Fifteen-year-old girls meet at one of the selection camps for the basketball National Team. They compete, but can they count on each other at the same time?

Selection camps for the basketball National Team of Poland are held several times a year. The best basketball players from all over the country are called up. The camps are intensive: – two or three trainings a day, interspersed with biological regeneration and lectures. The ability to be in a group, discipline and precise execution of the coaches’ orders: they know that this will determine who gets into the permanent squad of the Polish national team.

Each of the girls has the same goal – to show their best side and get noticed. However, this is not the only thing they have in common. The girls want to become professional basketball players, but they are first and foremost teenagers. They have their own worlds, hidden behind the doors of their rooms. They snack on sweets forbidden to them, record TikToks, and talk about crushes. There, they style their hair before practice, and tape their earrings with plasters so they don’t have to pull them out. They compete, but they know that no one will understand them as well as they understand each other.

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