Cuties

Amy and Angie have a supportive friendship despite being surrounded by a culture of bullying and girls being mean to each other (a culture they both participate in at times). As she tries to fit in with a new friend group, Amy makes some inappropriate and potentially dangerous moves and crosses ethical lines by lying and stealing. Amy's mother relies on a very traditional "auntie" to help educate her daughter, even as she struggles with her own problems, namely her husband taking on a second wife. Her culture teaches her to obey her husband, but she does have the option of leaving him.

Tween girls pose and dance in suggestive ways, mimicking dances they watch online. They dress in skimpy clothes and heels, though Amy has been told at a religious gathering that "evil" shows itself in "scantily clad women." Amy overhears the other girls having a conversation about sex (and rape), which is explicit yet shows some serious misconceptions about the specifics. The girls push Amy into the boys' bathroom to try to film a male classmate and flirt with one boy online, offering to let him touch a "boob." Coumba finds what she thinks is a balloon on the ground in a park and blows it up, but it turns out to be a condom; the other girls are disgusted by her contact with it and try to wash her body and mouth off with soap. Amy starts to undress for a man when he realizes she stole his phone, presumably offering her body in exchange for the phone. To try to compensate for the embarrassment of having her underpants photographed and shared publicly, Amy posts a photo of her private parts on social media; a classmate calls her a "slut" because of it. Amy's friends get angry with her because other classmates later ask them to do the same. Amy's father is about to remarry and sets up a special honeymoon suite.