What if you suffer a spinal cord lesion and doctors say you will never be able to walk again? Filmmaker Katelijne Langezaal refuses to just resign to this diagnosis and does everything she can to take back control. And she goes another step further, literally and figuratively...
After a boating accident during film shoots on a sailing vessel in the Caribbean, Katelijne Langezaal is confronted with the shocking diagnosis of spinal cord lesion. The expectation is she will never be able to walk again, so her world falls apart. But then she decides not to resign to a life in a wheelchair. In this equally intimate and personal documentary, she puts out all stops to prove her doctors wrong and take back control of her body and future.
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