While training at the gym 11-year-old tomboy Toni becomes entranced with a dance troupe. As she struggles to fit in she finds herself caught up in danger as the group begins to suffer from fainting spells and other violent fits.

A strange series of seizures has infected a young dance troupe in this dazzling second feature from Anna Rose Holmer. With echoes of The Virgin Suicides in its perceptive eye for the enigmatic mysteries of adolescence, The Fits is an uncanny coming-of-age drama that skirts the boundaries of horror.