Synopsis
Mike is a recent college graduate pursuing a simple dream: to play basketball abroad. When he’s given the chance to play in Ireland, his ancestors’ homeland, he jumps at it.
The 22-year-old lands in Belfast, a city recovering from war, and joins a team. He thinks it’ll be a one-year stint, a once-in-a-lifetime adventure before having to get a real job back home.
Instead, Mike dives head-first into Belfast’s dark history, meeting with former and current members of the Irish Republican Army, and he even shakes hands with the Dalai Lama.
Through the game he loves, Mike stands face-to-face with the emotional baggage from his life dedicated to basketball, ignoring calls to return home to a career and steady income.
When he finally gives up his dream to play and instead decides to coach in Belfast, he’s met with the challenge of a lifetime: to get a group of Protestant teenagers to play with a group of Catholic teenagers, so that they just might see eye to eye.