Two Milwaukee high schools have to team up to field a football team. Though only a mile apart, they could be in different worlds. Sherwood High is suburban, public and predominantly white. Messner High is urban, Catholic and Black. Messwood follows these teenage boys as they navigate the hazards of the game and the even tricker obstacles of race, class and economic disparity. The stories of the friendships that develop between the players, and the friendships that don’t develop between their parents, paint a complex portrait of a segregated society that may find common ground on the gridiron, but has a long way to go off the field. This intimate, keenly observant documentary isn’t interested in peddling uplifting Hollywood sports-movie clichés, or scoring polemical points: it invites us into the lives of the families of these young athletes and lets us draw our own conclusions. You’ll come away with opened eyes.