At 29, musician Maja has achieved the career she dreamed of, only to find herself depressed, broke and unable to imagine who she might be without it. Retreating from music, she moves back in with her mother and takes a part-time job supervising students at a local high school. Far from the identity that once consumed her, Maja begins to notice the pleasures of a life she might previously have overlooked: ordinary work, new connections, family, friendship and simply having time to think. Norwegian pop star Marie Ulven, better known as Girl in Red, brings an unforced presence to her screen debut, alongside The Worst Person in the World (2021) star Anders Danielsen Lie. With dry humour, soft melancholy and an eye for the small kindnesses of everyday life, Low Expectations resists easy ideas of success and failure. Instead, it finds freedom in loosening the grip of ambition and discovering that what you do need not determine who you are.