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Once upon a time there was a dream team, eleven Ghanaian youths, children almost, who won a football World Cup title for the first time for the African Continent. Overnight, the junior world champions became national heroes. Street celebrations in their home country continued for weeks. Ghana went wild.
We also become acquainted with all the other aspects of a great dream: the rise and fall, shattered illusions, last opportunities, new glimmers of hope. We see how people bounce back again, find new dreams and therefore survive. People from Africa, that long-suffering of Continents, who would be unable to survive without this ability to rise up again…
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