The team are commonly known as Chipolopolo - the "copper bullets"[1] and the film follows their journey from tragedy to glory.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Chipolopolo were a very promising national football team and in the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul they surprised the world, and thrashed Italy 4-0.
On 27 April 1993, a Zambian Air Force plane carrying the team, coaches and administrative staff, ditched into the Atlantic Ocean about 500 metres offshore from Libreville, Gabon.
Chipolopolo's captain, Kalusha Bwalya was not aboard the ill-fated flight as he was in the Netherlands playing for PSV at that time and had made separate arrangements to make his own way to Senegal to take part in the match.
Zambia became African champions for the first time, beating the favourite Ivory Coast after a long penalty shoot-out.