Exchange and Mart

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At a girls' boarding school in the remote Scottish Highlands in 1986, lonely 15-year-old Reg stares longingly out her dorm window at the chainsaw-wielding tree surgeon working on the school grounds. Reg and her classmates must take part in a self-defense exercise: The Attack Test. Reg must walk alone through the woods until she is attacked by her masked teacher Mike, at which point she must defend herself using force. This is intended as real-life preparation for these privileged and inexperienced women living in an isolated world where rape paranoia was rife. Full of trepidation, Reg walks into the woods where Mike is waiting, but the test does not go according to plan.