居住在加利福尼亚海滨的16岁的美丽少女波碧·摩尔（艾玛·罗伯茨 Emma Roberts 饰）家境优渥，衣食无忧。由于母亲早年去世，父亲盖瑞（艾丹·奎恩 Aidan Quinn 饰）对她纵容溺爱，致使她从小个性张扬，无法无天。某天，波碧的嚣张终于惹恼老爹，于是被送到一家英国寄宿学校学习。当然，即使到了异国他乡，波碧桀骜不驯的性格也未作改变，而她的作风自然也引起校内女生们的关注与反感，严格的校规更令她透不过气来。波碧无时无刻不想逃离这个古板沉闷的地方，不过在这段时间，她渐渐意识到自己从前行为的愚蠢，友情也慢慢来到身边…… 本片女主角艾玛·罗伯茨是著名女影星茱莉娅·罗伯茨的侄女。
A film adaptation of a play made by a high school drama club, directed by Yamashita Nobuhiro of Linda Linda Linda (2006). It’s essentially a coming-of-age film about teenagers made by teenagers. During summer vacation, at a high school, the PE teacher makes female students who skipped his class clean the outdoor swimming pool. The drained pool is full of sand blown in from a nearby baseball field, and the task of scooping up the sand and putting it in buckets seems meaningless. Chizuru, who used to be unbeatable in the swim club in middle school even against boys, practices imaginary swimming in the sand-filled pool, while Kokoro, who is serious about cultivating her feminine charm by diligently applying makeup, doesn’t care about cleaning. With their own stories, Miku, who diligently practices dance moves typically performed by men, and Yui, who was the swim club captain last year, and the other girls meet and converse on the pool floor under the summer sun, where unexpected conflicts arise and resolve in unexpected ways. Through a few hours in a day at a high school, the film interestingly shows the sensibilities and desires, dreams and hopes, anger and frustration of that time.
