Instructor lays down the ruthless studio rules to Leon: there are no names or students, only obedience. Leon vows to prove his place is earned and has nothing to do with 'that night.' The instructor's first lesson is extreme: to truly know the human body, Leon must strip. Faced with losing his scholarship and only chance to survive, Leon internally steels himself as the instructor points out the body's central axis and assigns him to sculpt his own spinal curve in clay, demanding perfection.