The Horseman

1911. In a forgotten valley on the Devon-Somerset border, the seasons unfold. Twelve-year-old Leopold Sercombe skips school to help his father, a carter. Skinny and pale, with eyes as dark as sloes, Leo dreams of a job on the Master's daughter, young Miss Charlotte, shocks the estate's tenants by wielding a colt when a boy dressed in a Homburg, breeches and riding boots appears. Peering under the stranger's hat, he discovers Charlotte. And so a friendship begins, bound by a deep love of horses, but divides by rigid social boundaries - boundaries that become increasingly difficult to navigate as they approach adolescence...