Covering the waterfront of Harding's life from when her domineering mother
pushed her onto the world stage of
figure skaters, through her emerging stardom on the ice to becoming a promising U.S. Olympian to the scandal where she tried to violently eliminate her main
competitor Nancy Kerrigan and a marriage that involved domestic abuse — this film has it all but chooses a Rashomon - like storytelling device to play it all out onscreen.