Three fifteen year-old girls living in the ultra-modern Paris suburb of Cergy-Pontoise find the dynamics of their relationships gradually beginning to shift in first-time filmmaker Celine Sciamma's intimate look into the world of synchronized swimming. Floriane (Adele Haenel) is a beautiful blonde with a perfect body and remarkable talent in the pool. Marie (Pauline Acquart) is something of a tomboy taken to water, and Anne (Louise Blachere) is an overweight but outgoing swimmer whose crush on a male swimmer, who in turn only has eyes for the physically flawless Floriane, is about to forever change the way these three disparate souls relate one another. The film was selected for screening in the section Un certain regard at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, and won both the 2007 Prix de la jeunesse at Cabourg Romantic Film Festival and the 2007 Prix Louis-Delluc. The film secured three nominations for the 2008 Cesar Awards; Celine Sciamma was nominated for the 2008 Cesar Award for Best Debut, and actresses Adele Haenel and Louise Blachere were both nominated for the 2008 Cesar Award for Most Promising Actress. Eventually the Best Debut award went to Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud for "Persepolis", and the Award for Most Promising Actress went to Hafsia Herzi for her performance in "La Graine et le Mulet".

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