The movie is about three Israeli boys who may get a chance at a better life by their involvement in soccer. Dima is a Russian immigrant who hates school and his stepfather and deals drugs on the side. Schlomo, a native Israeli, also hangs around with some shady characters and has a bad temper. Adiel, although born in Israel, is still considered an outsider because his roots are Ethiopian. But all three are connected by soccer.
The movie starts with Dima stealing a motor bike. The bike he stole was the one Schlomo uses at work. Schlomo fights with his swearing and screaming boss and leaves work. Next we see Adiel playing soccer on a sand field and he has great ball skills, but then we see him sniffing a drug.
Adiel and his brother find the bike Dima abandoned and eat the pizza that's on it. Schlomo and Matan then come upon them and beat them up, thinking that they stole it. We then see Dima at home with his abusive stepfather. Later we see Adiel at home with his sick mother.
Adiel a starts playing on the same soccer team as Schlomo and Dima, who has been skipping school, is forced to be the manager. There is racism on the team and they won't pass the ball to Adiel and some of the players foul him on purpose.
Schlomo lost his job aand was owed a month's salary. he breaks in but there is no money so he wrecks the place. Adiel gets in to a fight at a club and Dima comes to his aid. Then at a game against some older players, after getting beat badly in the first half, Adiel gets in and Dima goes in for the hurt goalie. They turn the game around and the team wins, and a fight with the other team draws them together.
The store owner wants revenge on Schlomo, but his brother who is a local gangster fixes it so he can work off his debt, but Dima has a big game on the day of his first shift. His bother comes and tries to take him but Schlomo's coach protects him. At the big game, with scouts watching, the boys play like a team and win the first game. In between games Schlomo gets beat up by gangsters. Dima goes to pick up a shipment of drugs, and gets arrested. Adiel goes looking for his lost little brother.
A very well done move has a documentary look and feel to it much like the work of Ramin Bahrani. Seems more like you are looking in to someone's life, rather than watching a movie that they were in.
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