Last season a new team entered the lowest Czech football competition. FC Roma is a club from Děčín, which is composed mostly of Roma players. "If I don't like someone, I will want to beat them," says coach Pavel Horváth. But his opponents see it differently and most of them are boycotting the Roma club. So it's a bit of a strange season for FC Roma. Sometimes it plays, sometimes it doesn't play, nothing is certain ahead of time and the club wins most of its matches by default. But the FC Roma players do not lose their sense of humour and fight both on and off the pitch. But sometimes it's harder than they imagined: they lose balls, players indulge in marijuana, fans shout at them to go to work. But the club is moving higher and higher up the table.
The chronicle of FC Roma, whose members have to persuade other "white" teams in the third league to play them at all, turns into an excursion through various forms of everyday Czech xenophobia. The unobtrusive observational approach of the filmmakers allows the speeches of the charismatic coaches to stand out, who with a healthy ironic detachment gloss over a society that gives them almost no chance. It is the speeches of the various protagonists that are the most striking element of this riveting yet hopelessly resonant documentary. Racism is shown to be an absurdity that is often unintentionally comic, but often chilling at the same time.
The film was awarded the Czech Joy Award at the Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival 2016 and was nominated for the 2016 Czech Lion and the 2016 Czech Film Critics Award for Best Documentary.