在这部希望球场剧情片中,For a Brazilian kid, Junior seems to have everything going for him — which is to say that he has a lot of football talent. So what if his girlfriend is pregnant, he's living with his alcoholic uncle, and he's got no money? Hope can be a terrifying thing when it is full of the unspeakable fear that it might lead to failure. Junior knows that football is a game for men, but how to be a man? Hopefuls recently won the Carte Blanche prize at the famous Karlovy Vary festival.
Junior, as he's known since he's essentially still a child, seems to be having a tough time getting on in life. He shares cheap lodgings with another fellow and earns money doing strenuous night shifts at a warehouse. It's no surprise that he lives for football and desperately hangs onto the dream of perhaps every Brazilian kid - to become a famous football player. Although he trains hard with his team, he's not one of the best. He won't admit to the mounting jealousy he feels as he watches his talented friend doing extremely well on the pitch. What's more, his prospects don't look so rosy now that his young girlfriend Carine is pregnant, and he also has to deal with his dominant mother...
