One afternoon at the end of August, Catalina, who has just turned sixteen, leaves her best friend’s house on a suburban development following an unpleasant incident. When she reaches the main road, she decides that the only way of getting home is to hitch a lift. Like any young person her age, she is terrified of getting into a stranger’s car, but even more terrified of breaking her parents’ strict curfew. Set in the early nineties, La educación física (‘Physical Education’) draws a portrait of a teenage girl troubled by a complicated relationship with her own body and a bitterness towards a world that tries to blame her for the fact that she’s a woman, and exposes the stories upon which the values of an entire generation are built.