When Leena steps foot inside the boxing ring, she’s invincible. Unshakable. Basically a 15-year-old legend in the making. But outside the ring? That’s where things get a bit... messier.
Guard Up is a bold, funny, and unfiltered coming-of-age comedy about growing in up, standing your ground, and holding on to who you are—even when life tries to throw you off course. Leena’s got big dreams: becoming a professional boxer, an astronaut, or even a CIA agent (or maybe all three?). She’s full of confidence and delusion in equal measure, and proud of it.
But then puberty barges in like an uninvited guest, and suddenly men are looking at her weird, her mum’s signing her up to a boxing gym to channel her growing frustration, and her body’s doing things no one warned her about. As her life outside the ring gets more confusing, Leena starts punching her way through it—one sparring match, awkward school day, and unwanted male gaze at a time. Partly told inside a boxing ring through rounds of sparring Leena takes you on a journey of self-realisation, sacrifice and determination. Can she stay true to herself, and after everything, is becoming a professional boxer still possible?