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A model student, 16-year-old Mira is the first-ever female prefect in charge of enforcing rules at a straitlaced Indian boarding school in the Himalayas. Despite her ambition and primness, she canb2(Bt help but fall for new student Sri and steals away with him to flirt and stargaze. With frankness and sensitivity, writer-director Shuchi Talati uncovers the contradictory layers of Mira's sexual awakening, the complicated feelings triggered in her protective, unfulfilled mother, and the school's lax penalties for boys' transgressive behavior.