I can jump over puddles

Alan always wanted to follow in the footsteps of his father and become a traveling officer of wild horses. But at the age of six, an insidious polio disease put a cross on his dream. Endless hospitals, examinations and a disappointing diagnosis of doctors - he will never be able to walk again, not only to stay in the saddle. For all the inhabitants of their small Australian town, this sounded like a sentence. For everyone except Alan itself. He decides that nothing will prevent him from leading a normal boyish life: to hunt rabbits, climb trees, fight with classmates, swim. To be with everyone on equal terms, even on crutches. With each new achievement, Alan raises the bar higher and believes that one day he can do the most incredible - to learn how to ride and become a writer