This is the story of a small Marseilles football club on the verge of extinction that ends up in an amateur tournament organised during the World Cup (inevitably referred to as "La Mondialette"). It's their opportunity to save the club. The team, made up of temperamental hotheads, will have to dodge all kinds of low blows.

Pendant la Coupe du monde de Football, un petit club de Marseille, menace de disparition, organise un tournoi amateur, baptise la Mondialette. A travers l'aventure d'une equipe composee de "branquignols" caracteriels qui devront eviter les coups fourres en tout genre, hommage aux petits clubs qui, souvent talentueux, ne percent pas, faute de subventions.