Overview

Love and Ambition.

The Drive to succeed, to be the best you can. 

Every Olympian needs such a drive, needs to be obsessed with winning in order to have a chance of doing so. In many ways, it's like Love: It dominates your life, your feelings, your perception of the world. It's impossible to win Gold without it.

But what if Love and Ambition clash? What if the person you loved was also your opponent? What if your euphoria could only come at the cost of your beloved's angst? Or vice versa?

Would you choose Love over Gold? Should you? Could you achieve the highest pinnacle of your career, the moment you've always dreamed of - if the cost was to crush your lover's dreams? And, if you did, could your love survive?

Diane, an autistic English hockey goalkeeper, travels to the Netherlands to hone her skills and meets up with Katrien, the vibrant rising star of Dutch hockey, tipped to be chosen for the national team. Alone in a foreign land, Diane is happy to be befriended by the extroverted forward, but soon realises that Katrien's feelings towards her go beyond friendship. At first shocked by this, she starts to realise some truths about herself and begins to return Katrien's feelings. Their relationship is strained to breaking point when Diane discovers a secret about Katrien, which forces her to come to terms with traumas from her past.

Whilst their relationship develops, so do their careers and they are both selected for their national teams. And then the Olympic Games come around, in Tokyo, 2021. Both of them wish to achieve gold medal status, the highest honour possible in their sport, and their life's ambition. But only one of them can do so, and only by crushing the dreams of the woman they love. Will love win out over gold?

Warning: Contains extracts from Existentialist philosophy and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Only to be read with your Authentic Self.