Italian emigrants without a penny to their name, the Donati family worked for a variety of stable owners until one of their bosses went bankrupt and left them a building with a few looseboxes, an ageing sulky and some harnesses... but no horses! After a life lived in the shadow of others when it came to training, how would they persuade people to bring them their trotting horses? Challenging encounters and fast-paced adventure in the heart of the horse racing world, with its intense highs and devastating lows. But there’s one thing that’s certain on the road to glory: everything hangs on a knife edge...