Moreover, the film is a corrective to romanticized or sensationalized portrayals of sexual awakening. Nancy’s journey is slow, often awkward, and rarely cinematic in the conventional sense; its honesty is moral in its own way. Pleasure is not depicted as instantaneous or transformative in a melodramatic way; instead, it is shown as a series of small discoveries, each one restoring a measure of self-possession to a woman long conditioned to subordinate her needs.