While Qatar, one of the world’s richest countries, puts on the most lavish and expensive World Cup in history, the workers are putting their lives on the line for poverty pay. Qatar’s laws kept workers from walking away from danger, but did nothing to protect them. This film explored the grossly one-sided nature of Qatar’s worker-boss relationship through a game of football.
In November 2017, Qatar agreed to a programme of fundamental reform of its labour laws to end these sort of abuses.