A teenager wants to be recognized as non-binary and thus struggles against the narrowminded worldview of their mother, who still sees her child as the idealized daughter.

KAY (16) wants to be recognized as non-binary and thus fights against the prejudices of their mother SABINE (45). However, Sabine is firmly convinced that the best thing for her only daughter would be a DIY vulva lollipop kit to ceremonially discover Kay’s femininity. While Kay escapes into the world of social media, their mother seeks self-knowledge on the exercise bike. In the process, they both forget about Kay’s little brother LUCA (6), who
quietly observes his family's conflicts. Kay is self-confident on social media and in front of their friends, but is actually afraid of the opinions of others: A feeling from which Kay emancipates theirself in the end. Out of protest and at the same time driven by curiosity and the desire for their mother's approval, Kay ultimately does make the vulva lollipop - with a silicone imprint and made of icing - and in the process is confronted with their own biological sex, the dissonance between social attribution and their own identity, which eludes the binary system. Kay hopes to prove to their mother that identity is more  than the biological body. But when little Luca, of all people, discovers the vulva lollipop, a confrontation with Sabine ensues, which ends with Kay demonstratively biting into the lollipop. "Not Made from Sugar" is the story about a young person who, in search of belonging and recognition, finds their own identity that defies the binary norm.