After her career and dignity both collapse, an actress whom the industry has pigeonholed and forgotten fights back by choosing to become a director. She endures a chain of blows: funding dries up, public opinion turns against her, and cinemas blacklist her. With a “non-mainstream” film and a nationwide, audience-driven online preview campaign, she fights her way from the margins to the heart of the industry. In the end, she goes beyond revenge and becomes the one who redefines the rules.