A rabble of working-class characters come together to form an amateur football team to play in a local competition, which has a trip to the 2002 World Cup Finals as the top-prize. They become the clear underdogs in a tournament that pits them against a contemptuous all-star team that creates major obstacles for the main characters – a common man who is single-handedly raising his two children since his wife’s passing, an ex-convict with anger management issues, an enthusiastic lounge singer fighting the karaoke machine, and a tender but tough tomboy. The story is built around the team’s struggle against the odds to emerge as the dark horse of the season, in the championship as well as in the society in which they live.