Zuma the puma

Snow is lovely when you see it on television but cold when you're standing in it, as South African football player Sibusiso Zuma realized when he left his country for the first time and flew to Denmark to play for FC Copenhagen. On the soundtrack Zuma describes his childhood in a poor township while the visuals cross cut between South African children playing ball and the professional Zuma the Puma in action during a match between FC Copenhagen and Lazio in Rome.

The film is the story of sports stardom as a way out of the ghetto, and of the problems and loneliness associated with being black in a white world. It is only on the pitch, absorbed for a moment by the game, that Zuma is able to forget his pain and his past.