on the face of it a film about woman want to see a football match wouldn not appeal much to somebody with little interest in football such a myself however this isn not about football it be about discrimination and the woman enthusiasm for the sport they love . the film open on the day of a crucial world cup qualify match between iran and bahrain and a girl be try to get in to tehran azadi stadium by dress like a boy and it look like she will get in until a soldier try to search her . once caught she be take to a small enclosure high up on the outside of the stadium where there be a handful of woman who have already be catch and here they be guard by a small group of conscript soldier who leader would rather be back home tend his livestock . we never learn the character name but we get to know them as people a the girl plead with the guard to let them watch though a nearby gap in the wall and when refuse try to get them to at least provide a commentary . as well a make an important point about the rigid gender segregation in much of present day iran the film contain many hilarious moment such a the disguise one of the girl be make to wear when go to the toilet and the girl who disguise herself a a soldier and be only caught because she choose to watch the match from a seat reserve for a senior officer . the girl enthusiasm for the game be such that by the end the viewer be likely to be on the edge of their seat hop that iran will win and thus get to go to the final in germany . the soldier aren not show a fundamentalist and they be just conscript who be there because they have to be and when explain to the girl why woman can not watch men sport do not seem that convince by their own argument . it be a shame that this film can not be see in iran itself but it be good that the wider world can see it and thus see that ordinary iranian aren not a bunch of fanatic desperate to wage war on the west but normal people with the same passion and concern a people everywhere . the cast do a great job in make their character seem like real people rather than mere caricature .