Ali is desperate for a baby, but vaginismus has other plans. Between awkward doctors, absurd remedies, and oversharing friends, she and her patient boyfriend spiral through a darkly comic battle against her own body.
Ali and Jack are trying for a baby. There is just one problem: they cannot have sex.
Ali lives with vaginismus, a widely underdiagnosed and poorly understood condition affecting millions of women, yet still rarely spoken about with honesty or depth. As she navigates diagnosis, treatment and the exhausting search for solutions in a world where sexual function remains largely framed around male satisfaction, intimacy becomes both comic battlefield and emotional fault line.
While friends casually overshare their own sexual triumphs under the guise of support, Ali is pushed toward increasingly desperate, awkward and absurd attempts to reclaim control over her own body.
Caught between fertility pressure, shame, humour and determination, Frigid explores what happens when desire, identity and biology refuse to cooperate.
Frigid is ITACA Pictures' second project and reflects a deliberate move toward stronger narrative development, showing the company's commitment not only to visual ambition but also to selecting stories with clear urgency and cultural relevance.
The project was chosen because vaginismus remains deeply underrepresented in screen storytelling and continues to be treated as a taboo, including within parts of the medical community, where those affected are still frequently left with inadequate answers and poorly developed solutions.
Through dark comedy, Frigid approaches that silence directly, using humour, discomfort and honesty to open a conversation that is long overdue.
Clinical absurdity defines the project's visual language: intimacy collides with sterile environments, emotional urgency meets procedural awkwardness, and the body becomes both battleground and theatre.