Tamara is 15 years old. Hung up about her curves, she began her secondary school alongside her best friend Jelilah, terrified she would be ridiculed and scorned by classmates. But this year, Tamara decides to fight back. She bets Jelilah she will get the first boy to pass the classroom door. That boy is Diego, the high school god, on whom pain-in-the-neck Anaïs has a crush. Tamara gradually realizes that against all expectations, Diego is interested in her. But that doesn’t go over well with the other students at school, nor with her overprotective mother...

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"I'm fat, not stupid!" exclaims the heroine in the first few minutes. Director Alexandre Castagnetti (Love is in the Air, starring Ludivine Sagnier) faithfully adapts the comic by Zidrou and Darasse, with the aim of making a French teen hit. Mission accomplished: Tamara is funny, dynamic, effectively utilizing the usual archetypes, essential scenes and present day issues. Thanks to the charisma of its actors (star Heloise Martin, with Sylvie Testud, Cyril Greï and Oulaya Amamra in supporting roles), everything goes as planned. And some off-beat scenes like a kitschy musical sequence with a singer alongside the characters manages to make up for the moralizing conformism of this modest adventure.