Lydia and Esther hope to achieve their dream of learning how to fly at the first aviation school for girls in West Africa. Yet, during training and everyday life, Western ideals collide with African values, and the girls realize that their dream of flying comes at a price.
A complex story of emancipation from both patriarchal and post-colonial oppression unfolds in mid-air at an aviation school in Ghana. While it uncovers the imbalanced teacher-student dynamics at play, Monika Grassl’s carefully observed documentary remains an uplifting tale of self-affirmation.
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