Emma likes to be in control. When she tries out for the local equestrian vaulting team she meets Cassandra, a strong, attractive and vivacious girl. They quickly become best friends, but feelings of jealousy, competitiveness and sexual attraction have them pushing each other to their limits.

Lisa Aschan’s intoxicating ride to the heart of adolescence is one of the most promising debuts to come out of Sweden in some time. High on rivalry and hormones, this poisonous game of power playing out at a horse-riding school drives, head-first, at the boundaries of gender and sexuality.