Being You follows Sheila, a 37-year-old Oscar-winning filmmaker who attempts to take her own life during a panic attack triggered by a question about her deeply personal film, The Barren. Instead of dying, she wakes up 20 years earlier in a club bathroom in Melville, Johannesburg, where she encounters her 16-year-old self, Shishiliza, confident, carefree, and on her way to meet a sugar daddy in Sandton. Knowing the night ends in a life-altering trauma that leaves her barren, Sheila tries to stop Shishiliza from going. What follows is a tense, surreal chase through the night as Sheila fights to rewrite her past. But as the night unfolds, Sheila realises that changing the past could erase the woman she has become. In a heartbreaking twist, Shishiliza chooses to go, understanding that the pain ahead is part of her becoming. Being You is a psychological drama about identity, regret, and the impossible complexity of self-forgiveness.
Being You follows Sheila, a 37-year-old Oscar-winning filmmaker who attempts to take her own life during a panic attack triggered by a question about her deeply personal film, The Barren. Instead of dying, she wakes up 20 years earlier in a club bathroom in Melville, Johannesburg, where she encounters her 16-year-old self, Shishiliza, confident, carefree, and on her way to meet a sugar daddy in Sandton. Knowing the night ends in a life-altering trauma that leaves her barren, Sheila tries to stop Shishiliza from going. What follows is a tense, surreal chase through the night as Sheila fights to rewrite her past. But as the night unfolds, Sheila realises that changing the past could erase the woman she has become. In a heartbreaking twist, Shishiliza chooses to go, understanding that the pain ahead is part of her becoming. Being You is a psychological drama about identity, regret, and the impossible complexity of self-forgiveness.
