In early 60's London, two teens share a friendship that's too strong to last.

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Conceived the day after Hiroshima, Ginger (Elle Fanning, with a divine childish pout) and Rosa (Alice Englert) are growing up together, sharing every single secret. They find their mothers “pathetic” because they constantly complain and don't believe in anything. When the Cuban Missile Crisis begins, the two teenagers decide to demonstrate against nuclear war, encouraged by Roland, Ginger's father, a pacifist writer who fights tyranny in all its forms - "including family tyranny". In reality, Ginger seems to be more affected by the chaos her father plunges into than by the atomic bomb. But she admires him too much to admit to it...

Director and screenwriter Sally Potter (Rage, The Tango lesson, Orlando) herself has said she lived in an anarchistic environment in which any affirmation was called into question. Although it's good to look critically at the opinions of others, it's also important to make sure not to hurt other people's feeling in doing so - this is Potter's message, wrapped into story set in the 60's, with magnificently shaped images (in which Ginger's flamboyant locks are often faded) and a deliciously nostalgic soundtrack (such as Petite Fleur by Sidney Bechet). A truth that remains current, both for love and friendship.