Fadey is a first grader. He’s shy and has a stutter. He’d love to be a part of a group but the other kids in his class won’t accept him. It’s hard to tell why since they all have a struggle of their own: Charm can’t focus, Timmy D is frightful, and Little Miss Perfect has to always be the best in everything. It all changes once a new student – Candy, joins their class. The girl is blunt to a fault, can’t get any joke and has a short fuse. Now everybody turns on her instead of Fadey so he should be happy... but somehow he’s not.
Maria Wojtyszko’s Bad Girl is a warm, comedic story for young viewers that poses uneasy questions for us, adults. How do we treat people that are outside of the social norms? Are anger and aggression our new taboos? What exactly are we trying to protect our kids from? And how far are we willing to go to grant them safety?