Fitting In (2023)

Fitting In
DirectorMark Leschinsky, Molly McGlynn
Box office$87,320

Plot

16-year-old Lindy has never had a period. She is diagnosed with a rare reproductive condition, MRKH syndrome. The diagnosis throws into disarray her relationships with her new boyfriend, Adam; her single mother; her best friend, Vivian; and others at her new high school. Her insensitive doctors advise her that she will have to use uncomfortable vaginal dilators frequently for the next "3 to 18 months" or have vaginal surgery. She feels unable to tell Adam about her condition and avoids him. Adam, confused about Lindy's moody behavior, breaks up with her. Lindy later believes that he and Vivian are romantically involved. She quits the track team. Meanwhile, her mother tries hard to reconnect with her.

Lindy starts a rebound relationship with Chad, a boy working at a fast-food restaurant, and has intercourse with him partly just to avoid having to use her vaginal dilator. She meets an intersex person at her school, Jax, to whom she confides about her MRKH syndrome. They also have a sexual encounter, but when Jax accompanies Lindy to a party and Chad approaches Lindy, Lindy doesn't want him to know that she is together with Jax; Jax is angry and leaves. Lindy then gets drunk at the party and is mortified to find out, the next morning, that the whole school now knows that she has a genital condition.

At a track meet after school, Vivian wins a race. She tells Lindy that she is not seeing Adam; the two make up. Some boys comment on Lindy's condition, and she publicly confronts them, standing up for herself. She texts Jax to apologize and cathartically admits to Vivian that she is sad and angry that she cannot have children. Lindy soon meets a female doctor who is more sympathetic than the male doctors have been; she tells Lindy that there is no rush to treat her condition either surgically or otherwise. Lindy begins to feel more positive about herself and reconnects with Jax.

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