故事发生在1874年,冯(伯格哈特•克莱斯纳 Burghart Klaußner 饰)是一名学校的校长,野心勃勃的他一心想要在学校里进行一番天翻地覆的改革,于是他决定引进英语课,这让这所学校成为了德国第一所拥有英语课程的学校。就这样,英语老师科赫(丹尼尔•布鲁赫 Daniel Brühl 饰)来到了学校任教。 从一开始起,科赫的教学计划就面临着重重的阻碍,无论是学生还是家长,他们都对英国充满了偏见。最终,科赫决定通过足球这项运动来帮助学生们更加了解英国,虽然他的计划收获了颇丰的成果,但同时也惹恼了一些利益相关者。有一些位高权重的人,他们开始想要科赫离开这所学校。The young teacher Konrad Koch is hired to teach English at a strictly-run German school for boys in 1874. The reform-minded headmaster von Merfeld has hired Koch as one of the very first English teachers of all at a German secondary school in order to let a fresh new wind into his musty institution. Koch sees how badly this is needed in his very first class. Everything that the boys know about England is common prejudices handed down from one generation to the next. In order to stir up some enthusiasm for the foreign language, Oxford graduate Koch resorts to unusual means and introduces his students to a curious sport that comes from Britain: football. Unfortunately, Koch's unconventional ways soon make him many enemies: influential parents, local dignitaries and, above all, his colleagues, who only believe in Prussian drills and discipline. They all want to get rid of Koch at any price. But then his students take the initiative...