This starts off deep, but maybe faux deep. Then it gets heavier and heavier. In the best possible way. It gets authentic. As Nanette digs deeper and deeper to find her authentic self.
I gather from what I've learned and read that everyone was insecure in high school, felt they didn't fit in and relate, that any popularity was based on falsity and pretense. Yet I can't shake the belief that I didn't fit in and relate more than my peers, that my views and values and aspirations were somehow different despite that insecurity. I really do believe I was different in a way that only a small percentage of us were different.
That's Nanette. She's a star athlete, popular, and everything everyone else expects. Then she realizes she has no idea who Nanette really is, aside from what everyone else expects. This is the story of her quest to figure that out. A most painful, isolating quest. Nanette has to figure out who she is without everyone else's expectations.
Painful, authentic, and true.