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Nick Fraser
Storyville Series Editor
In 2002 the Sierra Leone athletics team visited Manchester for the Commonwealth Games, and out of 23 participants, 21 failed to go home.
This film takes up the story after their desertion - it shows how difficult it is to build an Olympic team out of nothing but goodwill.
Sierra Leone has just emerged from a brutal civil war. Starting pistols cannot be used for fear of provoking more violence. The athletes have no money, and the coach finds it hard to motivate them.
But the story isn't wholly bleak - Sierra Leone does manage to compete at the Olympic Games, and given the circumstances, you might regard this as a small miracle.
