“When the British finally left the Indian subcontinent in 1947, the country then known as India split into two…. India and Pakistan. Fifty years, four wars, and a million deaths later, our two countries remained locked in one of the most dangerous conflicts in the world…”

So begins Leg Before Wicket, a story about the bitter conflict between two nations and about the common passion that is promising to build a bridge between them. It is also the story of the Chicago Giants, a team of raucous Indian and Pakistani cricketers, who have, in a foreign land, overcome a lifetime of distrust to find friendship on the cricket ground.

The film follows the Giants through a summer of cricket, and makes a journey to India and Pakistan including the disputed region of Kashmir to explore the roots of the conflict, its many manifestations over the decades, and the recent phenomenon known as “cricket diplomacy”.

And it answers one of life’s more perplexing questions: What is cricket, anyway?