After Dongo´s highly promising career as a gymnast is cut short by an injury, he arrives in Canada as a coach to rebuild his life. But because of his style and conditioning doubt arises as to whether or not he will be able to fit into this new world, and if he is up to the new challenges. First he has to face a past and background with which he is yet to come terms - a joyless childhood spent within the walls of the gymnasium and the ghosts of the past.