Chantal, a chubby girl of twelve, is having a hard time finding her way throughlife. She doesn’t have a lot of friends, and at home she can only turn to herstepfather for support as she doesn’t get along with her mother or stepbrother.Only in the local pool, where she is training intensively for an upcoming swimmingcompetition, does she truly feel at home. But when she needs a new pair ofgoggles, things don’t go as smoothly as planned and she takes everything to gethold of them.
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