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Boy Lane is a fifteen-year-old swimming prospect with the world at his feet. Inside the pool he lives a life of rigorous perfectionism. Outside of it, his existence is lonely and hollow. He is co-dependent on his controlling mother, and he lives for the approval of his coach–both ofwhom will stop at nothing to realize his Olympic potential. More detrimental to his health is his absent father, who physically abused him as a child. Boy’s mother has trained him to hatehis father; to put up walls and erase him from his memory. But Boy’s unresolved trauma eats away at him, bubbling hot beneath his surface, waiting to erupt. When Boy’s father shows up unannounced to the Youth Commonwealth Games, Boy crumbles, suffering a public meltdown which shatters his confidence and derails his career. In the aftermath of hisbreakdown, Boy develops a fear of the very thing that defines him: swimming. He quits on his coach, he leaves his mother, and he moves into a troubled household with his brothers.There, his life spirals out of control–a spiral which almost costs him everything. The film is about Boy’s hard-fought path to get back in the pool. After hitting rock bottom, he confrontsthe darkest parts of his soul and overcomes the immense psychological obstacles which have controlled his life–like standing up to his mother, thriving without his coach, refusing tofollow in his brothers’ footsteps, and most difficult, confronting his father. The events of thefilm lead to a fierce climax at the Olympic Trials, where Boy competes for the first time since his collapse at the Youth Commonwealth Games. With his dreams on the line, he must place in the top two to secure his place on the Australian Olympic team.