Thomas der Hochspringer

Thomas lives at a boarding school with his mother. The adolescent’s only contact with the outside world is through the artificial prism of sport. His life is dominated by dispassionate discipline and unorthodox social rules. Through her ambition to turn her son into a professional athlete, she places him in the charge of the narcissistic trainer Frank. His alternative training methods help Thomas to escape the monotony and the control his mother exercises over his life begins to crumble.