Jenna Stewart - Juice - and her friends, are young athletes with dreams of success at the highest level. Juice has her sights set on gold in the Olympic one hundred metres, but rivalry with her oldest friend Sam, the demands of school, her mother's embarrassing secret, and the imminent departure of her accordion-playing gran threaten to get in the way. And then there's Von - at first they're just training partners but something happens, and suddenly Juice can't get him out of her mind.