Max Stoller (Danny Huston) is brought to Frankfurt as coach by Axel (Mark Waschke) – the manager of the German basketball team – at the end of the 1970s. Max is an Israeli national hero since he made Maccabi Tel Aviv European Champion in the late seventies and that he now wants to train the hopeless German team, meets with incomprehension and rejection not only in Israel. Upon his arrival at the airport, he is welcomed by a pack of journalists who are primarily interested in Max as a Holocaust survivor. Dealing with his team is also more difficult than expected, not only because of the language – Max refuses to speak German with them. Thomas (Max Riemelt) – the captain of the team – tries to polarize until Max temporarily excludes him from the team. The only person with whom he can build a relationship is the Turkish immigrant Deniz (Amira Casar) and her witty daughter Sema. When he is confronted with the memories of his childhood in Frankfurt, where he grew up in the 1930s, he has to realize that one cannot flee from his past forever.