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Liliana is 17, comes from South Carolina and decides one day to break away. Instead of continuing to take part in the school trip through the east of the USA, she would rather decide for herself where the journey takes her. It will lead her from one bizarre to life-threatening encounter to the next, leaving her both more confused and more stable at the end.
The Sweet East makes it clear from the very first minutes that we are dealing with a beast of a movie in which almost anything seems possible. And yet it never lapses into arbitrariness - not least because the wild plot is held together by virtuoso staging. What initially sounds like a daring niche project turns out to be a prominent feature film: Ayo Edebiri (The Bear), Jacob Elordi (Saltburn; Priscilla; Euphoria) and Simon Rex (Red Rocket) are as much a part of the cast as Talia Ryder (Never Rarely Sometimes, Always; Stephen Spielberg's West Side Story), who leads the eccentric group. Right now, in the middle of Trump's second term, this film is more topical than ever.