Nadja has been a ballerina her whole life. She seeks out her long-separated mother and son Mario, but this becomes awkward. Nadja and Mario find each other as man and woman, not as mother and son. The strange tension between the two eventually leads to a sexual relationship, and their relationship goes in an unexpected direction. Adapted from Anke Stelling’s novel, Isabelle Stever’s Grand Jeté does not focus on the controversial narrative of incest, but on their obsession with their own and the other’s bodies. In the eye of the camera, the characters gaze at each other, and the bodies captured in those looks overlap with the ballet, which requires extreme body control, let us look at them not from the angle of a conventional mother-son relationship, but individual human beings free from moral standards. (Jin PARK)