Raw Plan
When Christina returns as a teacher to the school where she was once a student herself, she carries with her a past she thought was long over. In the classroom she is confronted with the problematic Mathilde, 16, who has lived in a shelter since her mother's death. Their meeting sets off a power struggle that quickly grows beyond the classroom walls. Mathilde struggles to hold on to a world that is falling apart around her, while Christina struggles not to become who she once was. Harassment, secrets and lies pull them towards a darkness neither of them can control.
Summary
In Raw Plan, Christina returns to the school where she was once a student, this time as a teacher determined to make a fresh start. But the past she has tried to leave behind is never far away, and her sense of control begins to erode when she encounters Mathilde, a troubled 16-year-old living in a shelter after the death of her mother. Mathilde is intelligent, vulnerable and fiercely defensive, struggling to preserve some sense of stability as her life continues to unravel. Christina sees a student in need of guidance, but their relationship quickly becomes more complicated than a conventional teacher-pupil connection. What begins as a confrontation over behavior and authority develops into a tense power struggle, with each woman provoking fears and impulses the other would rather keep hidden. As harassment, secrets and lies spread beyond the classroom, the school becomes a pressure cooker where old wounds and present-day anxieties collide. Christina is forced to reckon with the person she once was, while Mathilde fights to protect what remains of her fragile world. Their conflict increasingly blurs the boundaries between care and control, responsibility and resentment, victimhood and aggression. The film’s central themes lie in the persistence of trauma, the uneasy power dynamics between adults and adolescents, and the danger of mistaking authority for understanding. Raw Plan also examines how institutions meant to protect vulnerable young people can become arenas for judgment, humiliation and abuse. Rather than presenting either Christina or Mathilde as easily definable, the story places both in morally unstable territory, asking how much of the past can truly be escaped—and what happens when two damaged people recognize uncomfortable parts of themselves in each other.
