The film depicts the legendary story of the Chinese national table tennis team in the early 1990s, during which the men's team was crushed by the "European powers." In an effort to reform the team, coach Dai Minge returned to China from abroad and led the new recruits and veterans in Tianjin to launch a counterattack against the "powers." Despite being underestimated, the "new five tigers" of the men's team, each leveraging their own strengths, eventually staged a spectacular comeback at the 1995 World Table Tennis Championships....