Far from glamourous and more melodramatic than most fiction films, MODELS depicts the harsh realities of the modelling industry for a group of Viennese friends. Their normally carefully controlled facades are cast aside as Seidl offers a glimpse into the culture of over-indulgence, addiction and exploitation in which these women operate. While the on-screen behaviour is certainly extreme, Seidl posits their quest for love and beauty and their delusional, destructive patterns as symptomatic of wider contemporary experience.