When white secondary school teacher Amanda is pushed to the ground by black student Jason, she's reluctant to report him as she knows exclusion could condemn him to a future as troubled as his past.

But Jason can protect himself and with a story of his own he drags Amanda into a vortex of lies in which victim becomes perpetrator and where the truth is somewhere between public and private, black and white.

Vivienne Franzmann's bold new play recently won the Bruntwood Playwriting Competition and The George Devine Award 2010.