Football fan Ben moves with his family to a nearby larger city when their village has to make way for a huge strip mine – the 12-year-old must say goodbye forever to his childhood home. In his new school, he is now the outsider. And even in the new football club things don't go as well as the talented forward had hoped. To top it all off, there is another newcomer at the school: Tariq, a refugee from Syria, who not only steals the show in class but also scores points on the football field. Ben feels sidelined, but he and his competitor have more in common than they like. Both have lost their homes and have to find their way in a new environment. A sensitive and adventurous story that speaks the same language as its young protagonist.