Overview
Arbor and Swifty, played by Conner Chapman and Shaun Thomas, are two British lads who lack decent father figures and don't fit in at school. Arbor is on medication for his ADHD and violent tendencies and he is considered to be a very bad influence on his mate Swifty, who has a natural love of horses. The boys find out there is money to be made in knicking bits of metal and selling them to the dodgy dealer Kitten (Sean Gilder).
Kitten accepts the boys' offerings without any questions. But Arbor is upset when Kitten picks Swifty as a possible jockey in the illegal horse-and-cart drag races he runs. A moving and at times agonising story about the power of friendship.
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