Documentary that broaches the phenomenon of football and follows along with the achievements of the Austrian team bound for the 1998 World Cup in France. The preliminary matches against the Cameroons, Chile, and Italy, are seen through the eyes of different characters: a reporter, a banker and his mother, a blind man, an alcoholic, and a coach for a juvenile team.

     The team's victories and defeats are not the most important, but rather the reaction of people to TV - growing emotion, patriotism, hope, and disillusion. Austria is not among the great teams in the world, as team managers well knew. Thus, the best is to stay on the side of the fans, although they are not aware of the limitations of the team. It is precisely the portrait of these fans that forms the image of Austria today. Even being passionately fond of the sport, the director can not but show the excentricities stemming from this international phenomenon of the media.