The Horseman

1911. In a forgotten valley on the Devon-Somerset border the seasons unfold marked only by the rituals of the farming calendar. Twelve-year-old Leopold Sercombe skips school to help his father a carter. Skinny and pale Leo dreams of a job on the estate's stud farm. He is breaking a colt for his father when a boy dressed in a Homburg breeches and riding boots appears. Peering under the stranger's hat he discovers Miss Charlotte the Master's daughter. And so begins a friendship between the children bound by a deep love of horses but divided by rigid social boundaries - boundaries that become increasingly difficult to navigate as they approach adolescence.