In one of the world’s most dangerous cities, Caracas, Julio and his mother find a baby on a garbage heap. The mother hesitates but decides to take the little one home. She names him Daniel and lets him grow up with Julio. The two are eventually tied together like real brothers and their mother provides for them by baking cakes. 16 years after the finding of Daniel, the two boys have developed into the barrio’s best football players.

The conflicts start to rise to the surface when a talent scout lets them tryout for the youth team of Caracas football club. Daniel dreams of becoming a professional footballer while Julio’s more pragmatic goals of supporting his family leads him deep down into the city’s dark and brutal underworld. As the film progresses, we see how the sinister undertones threaten to topple the boys' hopes and how the family ties are stretched to their limit. In his energetic and touching debut film, director Marcel Rasquin manages to illuminate his home country’s duality of brotherhood and bloody conflict through a sport he claims has much in common with art. ob