ISLAMABAD, Nov 26: Only one place can combine a Korean, some children from East Timor and soccer- a movie. However, it is not all fiction; based on a true story, the movie titled A Barefoot Dream was shown at the Korean Film Festival at the National Art Gallery.

A Barefoot Dream narrates the story of a young Korean who decides to go to East Timor and coach a soccer team there after a number of his business ventures go belly up.

Depicted as a failure at anything he has started in life, the success of this team becomes a personal challenge.

It was a heart-warming film that captured the boyish shades of life in a poor country under difficult times. It takes the very individual dreams of a gang of young soccer players, their Korean coach and puts them in the context of a country dealing with internal strife and extreme poverty.

At one stage, it seems that the boys will give up on soccer when all of a sudden their soccer field is taken over by locals. But Mr Kim accepts it as a challenge and starts developing a proper soccer team ready to take its field back. The plot continues in a similar vein while slowly the team evolves and gets better at playing soccer. It keeps improving until eventually Kim even manages to take his team to compete internationally in Japan.

The movie is full of humorous and pleasant moments, never overdone and always brilliantly captured.

All sorts of relationships are explored within the gang of fifteen odd soccer players as well as the dream of their eternally lost coach.