FC Venus is a modern-day romantic comedy of women and men, and the differences between the two. It is a story of success and failure, the joy of winning and the fear of losing – and football.

The main characters of the film are Anna (Minna Haapkylä) and Pete (Petteri Summanen), a young couple who live together in Helsinki. Pete plays football in the 7th division, the lowest possible series level, in a lousy but obsessive team. The men play, watch, think, live and breathe football. Anna in turn hates the whole sport but her love for Pete overrides her hostility towards football.

But dark clouds loom over the happy relationship. Anna discovers to her horror that Pete intends to waste the whole month of June attending the World Cup in Germany with his teammates next year. The expensive trip with a team of sluggards comes first, Anna is left second behind.

Anna won’t put up with it. In a flare of anger, she ends up making a bet with Pete: Anna will put a team together of the wives and girlfriends of the men on Pete’s team and challenge them to a game at the end of the summer. If the women win, the men must give up playing and watching football. And if the men win, the women must never again give the men a hard time over their hobby.

So is born the women’s team, FC Venus.

The film follows the women through their trialsome, summer-long crash course in the secrets of football. The women finally learn what “offside” means, but they also learn a good many new things about women’s and men’s worlds. When the two teams finally meet, Anna and Pete, especially, have to consider what kind of a game they have thrown themselves into. Love is tested when the stakes grow higher and the rules change.