Sports in the Stasi state of the old East German communist regime is the subject of this plain and powerful drama. Lotte Hahn, an amphibious child-prodigy of the 1970s, is coached for gold as an Olympics swimmer, but the covert use of chemical injections by her mentors/tormentors will blur her gender into indeterminacy.

A thoughtful ration of bread and water for the bread and circuses about to start in London.

With Caoilfhionn Dunne, Patrick Dawson, Arthur Riordan, Natalie Radmall Quirke and Kathy Rose O'Brien