A trama segue a divertida história de um ex-técnico de basquete da liga secundária que, após uma série de erros, é ordenado pelo tribunal a gerenciar um time de jogadores com deficiência intelectual. Ele logo percebe que, apesar de suas dúvidas, juntos, esse time pode ir mais longe do que jamais imaginou.

Steve Barker (Johnny Knoxville) enfrenta problemas. Pressionado por Gary (Brian Cox), seu tio ambicioso, e por uma pilha de dívidas, ele decide fingir ser um deficiente mental para poder participar das Paraolimpíadas. Desta forma conquistará a medalha de ouro e uma quantia em dinheiro, que possibilitará que resolva sua vida financeira.

A widowed father struggles to hold together his family of three teenagers, one of whom is intellectually challenged and enrolled in a state school for "special" children where he finds fulfillment in his love of sports, emulating his older, athletic brother.

When Sam splits up with her partner, she is forced to move back into her childhood home with her mother and neurodivergent brother. When depression sinks in, her brother Emmett gets in her face trying to cheer her up and in doing so makes everything worse. But when Emmett is confronted with a situation at a baseball game where he is called a chicken, Sam rises to the challenge to come to his aid and is reminded of what is truly important.

Antônio Tenório and the Brazilian Paralympic Team are invited to a rare training camp in Japan. Passing through the main temples of Judo, our visually impaired athletes face the many challenges of training in an unknown country. The encounter with their Japanese hosts generates strangeness and difficulties, but also discoveries and joys. Step by step, these situations strengthen our athletes, who find themselves increasingly united.

Led by the charisma and sensitivity of champion Tenório, a new generation of judo is revealed and inspired.