Lab Girl tells a beautiful and honest story of pain and victory, of the joy of discovering new things and growing through life with the few people worth having around. Lab Girl made me laugh, I saw myself in its stories and it gave me hope. Hope tells the story of how the rest of us came to science, how we fought and cried, how we didn't sleep and thought we weren't enougn. Hope tells us about the joy, and the friendship, the pure ectasy of a new thing, a thing that is only yours.

Hope teaches us about plants and why they are magical while taking us along as her partner in crime as she does amazing science. She gives me hope that I too can someday make it, and she makes me want to go watch things grow again like I did when I was little.