Home Ground

Varg is a football team which has just moved up to the best league in the Norwegian football tournament when their coach suffers a heart attack. The best player, Michael Ellingsen, is all set for the job and the contract is ready to be signed. But the manager wants the female coach, Helena Mikkelsen, whose team is playing in the Women's Champions league. How will the club, the players and the town receive a female coach?

Helena is invited to dinner at a restaurant to meet the club owner, whom she wants to ask for new players. When she returns home, her daughter tells her about Adrian, a talented football player that lives in the neighborhood. Helena realizes that he is a former Ajax player, and tries to recruit him for the team. At a training session Helena asks Michael if she can join in at a crossbar challenge (best out of five). Will she finally be able to convince the team that she can play football?

At a board meeting, it becomes clear that Espen has been asked to prepare a Plan B: names of football coaches who can step in at short notice should Helena fail. Adrian signs up with the club, but his first training sessions result in several confrontations with Michael. Helena learns more about Adrian's background and why he left Ajax. It is time for the first game of the season. Will Adrian be mentally ready?

Three defeats at home gets too much for the supporters. They decide to make a joint walkout in the 82nd minute of the next game (thus commemorating a glorious game in '82). Helena's daughter, Camilla, gets a job at the restaurant and Michael goes to see a female fan. When the supporters, one evening, paint graffiti on her car and on her house, she gets furious and goes to the supporters' pub, Wolf's Lair, where it comes to a confrontation.

When Helena Mikkelsen becomes the first female coach of a Norwegian football club, she must overcome the skepticism of her male peers and gain their respect.

Helena is sentenced to four days of quarantine because she pushed the coach from Aalesund. The team wins the first quarantine game with Michael as coach and he doesn't hesitate to take the honour of the strategy and the victory. At Camilla's restaurant, one of the cooks grants her favors and thinks that he should have favors in return. One evening, the Aalesund coach turns up at Helena's home. Helena manages to turn on her phone recording.