Soccer-mad Jess (Parminder Nagra) can bend a ball better than any boy she knows. She dreams of playing professional soccer like her hero, David Beckham, but her traditional Indian parents expect her to settle down and learn to cook the perfect Punjabi dinner. When she meets Jules (Keira Knightley) and joins a local women's soccer team - Jess starts to really believe that she can achieve her dream but before she can do this, she must convince her family.