At the age of 19, Ada was raped. Not by a stranger: by her best friend’s boyfriend.
Nine years later, Ada approached Alexe Poukine and wrote about her experience.
As twelve women and two men tell the story of Ada in first person, they discover and re-live their own encounters with, and sometimes participation in, sexual abuse.
Not an easy viewing but a powerful film that calls things by their name.
The Spanish title Lo que no te mata as well as the English That Which Does Not Kill refers to the worn-out aphorism by Friedrich Nietzsche. One of the women argues that not all experience (that does not kill you, of course) makes you stronger, better or is otherwise worthwhile.
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