Stories of ivory

During 18 months a crew from RTBF has followed from Africa to Europe the enlistment of a dozen of young professional soccer players in the belgian soccer team of Beveren, first division.The soccer as you rarely see on tv:not a matter of promotion or celebration but a key to investigate into sport business and strange commercial relationships between a western ex colonialist country and Africa. With a tv crew penetrating inside the heart of the backstages,the board of the club, the tricks and manners of the managers, rather than easily satisfied with the endless usual superficial pictures from the ground.Both ruthless and sometimes hilarious chronicle of young men obliged to leave their native country to escape poverty, surrounded with unlikely dreams of fame and fortune. Ingredients for a programme far from the traditionnally conformist use of sport on TV. Besides, all the professional belgian soccer clubs invited to welcome the documentary crew had, except Beveren, declined the invitation...