Barbella

What's the skateboarding daughter of professional bodybuilders to do when she's expelled from a posh East Coast boarding school in a cloud of sex scandal? Barbella goes back home to Venice Beach California where she tries to find new purpose in her old surroundings. Enter the new Maxi Ho Gym a wild-eyed Korean ex-K-Pop star's gamble that Muscle Beach is ready for natural fitness without barbells and steroids. Barbella joins his ragtag team alongside a homeless philosopher an ex-Navy SEAL a brassy Brooklyn yoga instructor a theatrical Compton dancer and a handsome Chechen parkour star who falls for her. When financial realities threaten to close the gym the only hope for a last-hour rescue comes from the unlikeliest of sources-and from a stunning decades-old secret. Full of crazy heart and cheerfully profane camaraderie the pali pali Boom Boom! BARBELLA will make you cheer and crack up in equal measure.