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Football fans descend on Brussels for the 1985 European Cup Final between Juventus and Liverpool. Inside the stadium, the mayor of Brussels and his daughter/press attaché Marie (Violet Braeckman) brace for kick-off. Meanwhile, Liverpool fans begin to turn on Juventus fans, resulting in catastrophic casualties. The increasingly drunken mayor is no help in handling the crisis, and Marie has no choice but to step up. Multilingual, she aids in negotiations between police, game officials and politicians as they tackle the impossibly difficult question: cancel the match and risk further riots or let them play on? Teodora Ana Mihai’s third feature is a gripping insider view of terrible real-life tragedy.