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Without love you will never succeed in anything.
Donal, having been brought up alone by his mother, has a soft spot for dogs and so he helps out at the kennel of Joe's whippet breed. Joe, a person, who certainly never experienced love and doesn't treat his dogs in the nicest way, tries to be a father figure for Donal. When the new whippet Mighty Celt - being labelled as a loser by Joe - is supposed to be drowned, Donal feels pity and saves it. Joe engages with that very unwillingly, and not without a deal. Donal has to work for him day and night, and upon that has to train the whippet. For if it will win the next three races, it will belong to him.
When all of a sudden and unexpectedly Donals father "O" returns home and they both don't know about their blood relationship, they becomes friends. And Joe becomes afraid of losing the boy. The relationship of father and son has become inseperable meanwhile. Joe tries to restrain being together with the boy and makes Mighty Celt lose the last race. He hopes to keep the boy in keeping the dog. But Donal drops out of the deal. He rumbles Joe and insists on taking the dog with him. Short, Joe cuts the dog's throat and throws it to Donal, saying: „Here you are“.
I think the movie reminds us in an impressing way, that everything needs its love, which has to be developed and can't be enforced. With its plot, which shows this topic from a different point of view, I liked the movie very much. In the foreground it shows the relation between human being and animal, which shows parallels in the relations between the two men.