Idealistic producers, directors, and writers join forces with a set of local Kenyan actors to put on a show for Kenyan television, a soap opera about a coed multi-tribe soccer team. The soap opera represents an ordered reality, created to promote national unity and help the country heal from the tribal violence precipitated by Kenya’s 2007 elections. The shooting schedule is tight and the pressure is on. The variety of class backgrounds and tribal affiliations of the cast reflects Kenyan society, as the soap’s creators intended, but not everything can be staged and controlled. We watch as a scripted street brawl, for example, turns frighteningly real. The Team follows the actors at home, in their neighborhoods, and on the set during their month of shooting. After the production wraps, life returns to normal and violence again erupts. The film suggests that in today’s Kenya, chaos and hope co-exist in an uneasy truce.  NK