Podio

Paula Sen is a teenage swimmer with unbridled ambition. She knows that her coach will not applaud her for coming fourth, because her glory never exceeds the podium: gold, silver and bronze. She has a recurring dream: she swims smoothly through the air, she pushes herself off the walls of buildings and strokes through the ether. She obsessively looks at herself in the mirror of the great swimming champions, although she does not aspire to equal them, but to surpass them. She doesn't know where her ambition comes from, but she wants to find out what she is capable of. She intends to break a world record, dominate the four styles (butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and front crawl), and even invents her own: the Sen style. She longs for the gold medal to climb to the top step of the podium, but she doesn't want to get off it until her history remembers her as the greatest legend she has ever forged in a swimming pool. However, such a demanding sporting life, halfway between megalomania and neurosis, entails personal and affective costs that Paula will experience in full competition.