Three elite athletes train for the Summer Games, Ludoj, 2024. Facing press attention, injury, and exhaustion, they practice their respective disciplines of rifle shooting, fencing, and judo. The women work with coaches to optimize their performance before competing under acute pressure at the Games.

Giulio Bertelli’s absorbingly experimental debut feature pins down the world of athletics and its clashing atmospherics. Setting the sterility of competitive environments against the animal intimacies of endurance and exhaustion, this unique film thinks nothing of genre confines or barriers of pain.