Mona lives in a working-class neighbourhood in the Ruhr area. Her heart beats for football.

Not so long ago, she moved from a lower-class team to one of the best football teams in Germany in the Rhineland, where her best friend Melanie also plays. Mona's parents can't understand her passion for football. Her father finds this sport rather inappropriate for a woman, while her mother worries that Mona spends too much time on the pitch and is therefore not building an independent life for herself.

When Mona's team is given the extraordinary opportunity to take part in a women's world championship, the 19-year-old gives her all to become part of this dream. But the road there is full of obstacles. Mona loses her job, injures herself, lies to her parents and falls out with Melanie. And even when the two friends finally make the team for the World Championships, there is still no peace: it comes to light that Mona lied to her coach about her injury, which means she is excluded from the tournament for the time being.

In the course of the World Cup, Mona learns an important lesson: football is a team sport. And when she returns home with the trophy in her luggage, nothing seems impossible any more. But the reality in Germany is very different.