It opens with schoolgirls singing a Beatles song in the courtyard of their Catholic school to the delight of their classmates, but a nun arrives to break it up.
Two girls, Pam and Stella, are in a bedroom where they kiss cutouts of Beatles members that are pinned to the wall.
Pam's home life is a scene of dysfunction due to her unfaithful father and a depressed mother.
Nicole Kidman admitted during an interview that at 14 she was originally cast as the lead in the film but turned it down because of her reluctance to kiss a girl and wear a shower cap.
[4] In a retrospective review, Cristina Álvarez López of Mubi wrote the film "signals concisely the fragile, liminal territory to be explored: a space between childhood and womanhood, between desire and repression, and between curiosity and trauma".