Excision (2012)

Alienated teen Pauline struggles with the pressures of fitting into high school, pleasing her mother and a burning desire to lose her virginity. With a grotesque curiosity for the darker side of life, Pauline is considered a social outcast by everyone around her. Enticed by flesh, she retreats into her own fantasies and hopes to become a great surgeon – that is, if she doesn’t go insane first.

• awkwardness
• domineering mother
• lung transplant
• social outcast
• surgeon
• teenager