Given Stuurman

Newly elected President Nelson Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's rugby union team as they make their historic run to the 1995 Rugby World Cup Championship match.

Janitor Otto Huber is a down-to-earth person through and through. When he wins a trip to Africa in a competition, the single father boards the plane just for the sake of his young daughter. Once there, he happens to be chosen as "King Otto".