In the opening shots of this gripping, naturalistic drama, seven-year-old Nora (Maya Vanderbeque) weeps inconsolably before her first day at school. Although her father and slightly older brother, Abel, assure her that everything will be fine, Nora seems to have a sixth sense of what is to come. When she witnesses Abel become the target of rampant schoolyard bullying, her fears are confirmed. Desperate to protect her brother, Nora wants to inform adults of the incident, but Abel instructs her to keep quiet. Now caught between branding herself a tattle-tale or allowing her brother to painfully endure, Nora must step forward and make her own moral decision. Directing like the spiritual heir to the Dardenne brothers, new talent Laura Wandel shoots from the point of view of her pint-sized protagonists and surrounds them with a din of sound that rings true.