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In 2008, Dave Bidini accompanies Homeless Team Canada to the Homeless World Cup in Melbourne, Australia. As he watches team members play and shares their disappointments, frustrations, joys, and triumphs, he comes to care deeply about the players: 45-year-old Billy, who is a former addict; the quick-footed 24-year-old Moroccan immigrant Juventus, who refuses to talk about his past; and the majority of all, the endearing teenager Krystal, who posesses photograph of her long-dead mother and dreams of an improved life. Bidini gets to know the other teams at the Homeless World Cup and describes the games themselves, culminating in Canada's final game against Malawi and a opportunity for the talented Krystal to join a specialist team in Holland. Bidini also begins to comprehend what this tournament means to people. He sees firsthand the energy of sport to transform the lives of these on the edge-how your choice to play this game often means the difference between survival and heading down a road of addiction, poverty, or crime. Home and Away offers a powerful go through the poor and dispossessed, from the barrios of Mexico City and the shanties of West Africa, to the streets of THE UNITED STATES and Europe, and illuminates the renewed meaning that these homeless players find in the beautiful game.
