This film talks about the role friendship plays in our collective enjoyment of sport, while also showing vignettes of different types of friendships formed through playing and watching sport. Everything from young friends helping boost each other over a fence to get a lost ball, to strangers celebrating together while watching a match on a train station TV monitor. Because young or old, sport gives people an excuse to be together. Allowing friendships to form or deepen. At the end of the film, we revisit some of the moments of friendship in the context of the Facebook interface. Ultimately, this is a celebration of the importance of friendship in our lives, both on and off the Facebook platform.

This film was aired in the UK during the Rugby World Cup. This is a time when the countries that make up the UK compete against each other -- as well as other countries -- so it becomes a time of both friendship and rivalry. But mostly, it's just a time when most of the UK is obsessed with sport.

Sport -- it’s just made up games with made up rules.

So why does it make us cry? Inspire us? Help us make friends with people we’ve never met.

Maybe that’s it...it’s something we can be part of together.

A way to find others to share in our madness.

They're the ones who don’t judge when numbers on a scoreboard make us cry with joy or with pain. Because the same tears will be in their eyes as well.

Who make sure we don’t have to suffer alone, or even worse, celebrate alone.

So we hang out in pubs and living rooms and newsfeeds, telling stories of games we saw, to people who saw the exact same games.... And happily listen as they do the same to us.

Because they are the ones who helped us realize it's more than just a game.

It’s a ritual.

An identity.

But most of all, it’s a way for us to be together.