In December 1980, Nick Castle , a 20-year-old dockyard apprentice, was playing rugby for his local club, Bodmin. In a loose maul he suffered one of the most serious injuries a person can sustain and still survive -he broke his neck and severely damaged his spinal cord. As the ambulance carried him away. Nick had to face the fact that he would almost certainly be paralysed from the neck down for the rest of his life. John Walmsley tells the story of Nick's long fight, not only to survive, but to rebuild his life with the help of the girl who vowed she would stand by him whatever the outcome.