Miss Novak (Mia Wasikowska) comes to a prestigious boarding school to show the students the latest food trends. She teaches them how to eat mindfully - less and better. The new "sustainable" lifestyle is to free them from everything they have believed in so far. A strong bond soon develops between Miss Novak and the group of students. Before the other teachers and busy parents realize what is happening, the situation spirals out of control...

Director Jessica Hausner has made a raw and very topical thriller about the devastating power of authority and its magnetic hold on the fragile teenage years.