Also known as Phörpa, this is the story of two young Tibetan refugees arrive at a monastery in exile in India. While chants and chores are being done, boys will be boys and impromptu games of soccer with a can, papers being thrown, graffiti being written and talk about the World Cup taking place in France are rampant.
Soccer fan Orygyen is always up to something. He wears a Ronaldo shirt under his robes. He asks a lama to say prayers for the French team, because they are the only country that fully supports Tibet. He has a shrine in his room, but it is not to the Buddha, it is to the soccer players he loves.
Boys break into chants when Geko, the enforcer lama walks around otherwise, like boys everywhere, they are mostly up to no good. they bet cooking shifts on the results of the World Cup games.
Orygyen gets kicked out, and his friends along with him, of the place they paid to watch the games, because he can't shut up and he can't sit down. He must come up with a new plan.
Orygyen gets up the nerve to ask Geko if they could rent a TV so they could see the final. Geko asks the head Lama who agrees they can watch "the fight" between nations. The Lama worries about all the things the young monks are exposed to these days.
With a tractor they pull back the antennae dish needed to pick up the signal. All the young monks cheer as they pull in. As they watch the game the Lama and Gecko join them. But Orygyen can't enjoy the game because he put up his friend's watch as collateral for the TV. Gecko finds out what is going on and says that he will pay.
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