Tagline:

An artistic swimmer addicted to painkillers and her teammates pursue the Olympic dream under an authoritative coach, while a journalist looks into the recent suicide of one of the girls.

Synopsis:

"Under Marcos Pavel, a renowned and authoritative coach, the star duet of Portuguese artistic swimming, Diana and Sara, train to qualify for the Olympics at a high performance center, sided by Elisa, a backup swimmer. At 32, the ambitious Diana is crunched by chronic shoulder pain (result of constant injuries) and rests on Elisa’s supply chain of illegal painkillers. Exhausted, Sara has to balance long hours of training with a promising scientific career. Best friends for years, the pair loses focus while Elisa is shows promise and threatens the duet’s long standing dynamic. That’s why nothing could anticipate that Elisa would try to commit, barely surviving. Diana and Sara go in the pool, hoping to breathe underwater but they’re shaken. Sara wants out. Diana’s shoulder aches more than ever and she’s out of drugs and out of a dealer. Summoned by Pavel, the young sisters Beatriz, perfectionist and bulimic, and Tânia, irreverent and spontaneous, appear unexpectedly as replacing duet. But Diana won’t let go. She’s at the end of her career, she knows this is her last shot at the Olympics. She must convince Sara to stay. She must get her painkillers while Elisa is in a coma. She must monitor Beatriz and Pavel’s dangerously close relationship. She must not fall in love with Tânia. And she must ward off a journalist investigating Elisa’s suicide attempt and Pavel’s unkind methods. Training is everything but training isn’t enough. It’s about taking pain — and, sometimes, inflicting it."

Project representatives:

Diogo Figueira (Creator and writer)
Isabel Pestana (Head Of Development)