[1] With great determination, a group of young women in Khartoum are out to play professional football, in defiance to an imposed ban by the Sudanese Islamist military government.

With bravery and courage, they struggle to get an official recognition as the Sudanese women's national football team, faced with strong opposition to their goals.

[14] Immediately after its premiere in Berlin, film critic Vladan Petković called it a "lively, touching and, at times, poetic documentary"[15] and Joseph Fahim wrote in his review on the Berlinale 2019: "Strong-willed, refreshingly liberated and ferociously independent, Zein’s footballers defy the mainstream perceptions of Sudanese women.

"[16] On the occasion of its screening at the New York African Film Festival in December 2020, an interview about the making of the documentary between Marwa Zein and Sudanese-American filmmaker Sarra Idriss[17] was published on YouTube.

[18] In this interview, Zein explained the wider scope of her documentary: "I wanted to tackle many aspects about being Sudanese...Are we Arabs or not?