Chelli Look is portrayed as a talented handbag designer dealing with profound personal loss, including the death of her best friend and the murder of her sister, Megan Henneberg. Despite her engaging design process, the documentary struggles to create a cohesive narrative around her life and family's trauma. Chelli's character lacks depth, as does the exploration of her sister’s murder, which remains vague. The film's highlights are the aesthetically pleasing scenes of her craftsmanship and time spent in Florence for further training, but these moments don't fully connect the emotional threads of her story.
The most engaging parts of the film are the scenes where Chelli is at work at her fancy industrial Juki sewing machine in her alarmingly tidy, sepulchre-white studio.
Chelli found a way to forgive her brother-in-law in a religious sense, but the wafty haziness around the whole issue reduces the murder to a brutal but incidental noise off-screen.
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