The film is set in 1972. Jacqueline is 13 years old and a talented athlete in a Leicester school preparing for an athletics meet in a months time. She wants to become an adult before the meet, having difficulties in relationships with her single mother Vivienne, who refuses to show her daughter a photo of her black father and has problems committing to her lover Vic.
The Girl with Brains in Her Feet
A 13 year old talented athlete struggles to come to terms with the traumas of life as she prepares for a very important athletics event.