A promoter fights, sometimes by questionable means, to create the first Spanish national team. Backed by a sports journalist forced to write under a male pseudonym in order to be deemed credible, he decides to bet on the future of women's football.
A reserved teenage girl harbors a secret passion for football. Around her are a hairdresser, a nurse, a student committed to opposing Francoism, a journalist passionate about football, an ambitious and smooth-talking sports promoter, a young boy who does not like football, and a presumptuous older brother.
These young women, from varied backgrounds, reveal real potential. The comedy shows how hard they had to hold on to establish themselves on the pitch, from small sporting feats to major social victories.
The film broadens the subject to the injunctions weighing on young people, including boys, in patriarchal societies. The characters' paths intertwine and form the substance of a small humanist and gently militant film.
The narrative also recalls the remarks the first players may have heard before taking the field—they who dared to challenge men for their preserve, the football pitch.
The plot takes place in 1970. Women's football is viewed very unfavorably by the authorities there, and period sets recreate the atmosphere of those years.