At 9, Nathalie decides that she would win the Olympics, and since then she builds he way towards success. She shares her dream with her father Filippo, an eccentric, rich and charismatic man. Her first and obsessive supporter, Filippo hires the legendary coach Daniel Levavasseur. Through gruelling training sessions and electro-stimulations, she moulds her extraordinary body and rushes around the globe attending competitions, following gurus, participating in propitiatory rituals. Before London 2012, Daniel signs a contract with the Chinese team and they win the Gold Medal. Nathalie plays as a substitute in the Italian team and she loses. Feeling lost and abandoned by her coach and by her country, Nathalie takes advantage of her Brazilian origins and changes nationality, increasing her chances to qualify for Rio 2016.
She seems at ease in her new country, she marries Natalio, a TV star chef, and she constructs her public persona, determined to succeed, on the fencing piste and in the world. Yet at the Olympics she fails again, she is discouraged. Suddenly and shockingly her father dies. Bewildered, Nathalie begins a virtual and intimate dialogue with him, seeking his help, even in death. In 2019, at 34, against all the odds, she finally wins a gold medal and becomes a World Champion.
Nathalie is now ready for the Olympics in Tokyo 2020 but Covid-19 gets in the way. Nathalie is in Paris and despite the lockdown she keeps training every day. She is confronted by her husband Natalio who wants children and is tired of waiting. In her intense sessions with her psychotherapist she wonders why, even now that she is the world champion, she is consumed by the anxiety to win.
Will she parry this invisible, shifty opponent?