In 1960, two Nigerian scholarship students of Igbo origin, arrive at Harvard University and are thrust into an incredible decade of American history, where they navigate love, racial tensions, political upheaval, and personal destiny, including the meteoric rise of Harvard's greatest athlete, Chris Ohiri.
The presidency of John F. Kennedy, the pursuit of Civil Rights for all Americans by Martin Luther King Jr, Vietnam, and love of the world's most popular game, football, or as their American hosts call it, soccer, comes alive through the eyes of two young men from a continent emerging from colonialism, but gradually drifting towards civil war...