Jane Sowerby

When Jack, a sign-language-speaking chimp, makes a break for freedom, his talent for ice skating soon turns him into the local hockey team's secret weapon. But the lab officials are closing in.

Based on a song she wrote and performed, a young girl wins a national contest for a recording contract. Now she must balance the life of a normal teenager with that of a rising star in the music industry.

It seems that Jack's hockey skills translate directly into tearing up the halfpenny and popping sick grinds. With his new buddy Ben by his side Jack takes off on a cross-country skateboard competition tour with hilarious results.

A lonely young woman's desperate need for emotional and sexual companionship draws her into a surreal and ultimately destructive relationship with a shifting and whispering tattoo she has willed to life on her skin.