 The pressures of growing-up as the child of a single parent in Leicester in 1972 prove to be too much for thirteen year old talented athlete Jack (qv##nm0911622##). As she struggles to prepare for the biggest test of her athletic ability in a few weeks time she is continually diverted by other distractions in her life. Her neurotic mother Vivienne (qv##nm0575140##) is struggling to commit to a relationship with her new boyfriend Vic (qv##nm0107101##). Her best friend Maxine ( Jodie Smith (I)  (qv)) taunts her about sex and wants to organise a tryst with some local boys. School wants her to do other things besides sport and she, herself, is also desperate to discover the joys of womanhood but without any real understanding of the potential consequences. Inexorably events build to a crescendo and reach a climax on the fateful day of the important athletics meeting.