'With three seconds remaining in the Super Bowl, it falls to the New York Giants' place-kicker Shaun Reedy. … He's kicked it … but no, it's gone left and wide…...'

Peter, Davey, and the rest of the Dromtarry Under-11 Gaelic football team are busy training for the start of a new season when a mysterious visitor arrives in town; Shaun Reedy, ex-American footballer, gets involved with the boys' team – far away from the glamour, the money and the pressure that turned him off his own sport– and falls in love with the GAA.

When something happens in Dromtarry that changes all their lives, they discover that it's having the guts to take a shot at goal – whatever the outcome – is what matters …