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The year is 1956. While Hungary is only a small slave nation within the massive Soviet Block, it is also a superpower – its national water polo team is invincible. Even locked behind the Iron Curtain, the players feel like kings. Thriving on success and enjoying the attention of every girl in the country, they stand self-assured and unified. The team has lost only once in 1955, when a referee in Moscow simply did not let them win. The team are now bracing themselves for a rematch due to take place at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne.

History, however, throws a major obstacle in team’s path, and a revolution breaks out in Budapest. The young star of the team, Karcsi (Iván Feny--) and his friend, Tibi (Sándor Csányi) get embroiled in the events occurring out on the streets. At first, they are only out for adventure, but a fiery student - Viki Falk (Kata Dobó) - from the Technical University catches Karcsi’s eye, and in following her steps he finds himself right at the heart of the uprising - the Kossuth square and the subsequent siege of the National Radio station.

This is no longer a game. The revolution sweeps him off his feet and he sacrifices his success in the sporting arena in order to fight for justice. Even though he is forced to let his team down, he finds new and faithful allies, the heroes of the streets. Even more importantly, he finds Viki.

At the end of October, the revolutionaries start to believe that their fight and all they have sacrificed has not been for nothing. Viki convinces Karcsi that it is time for him to return to his team and to represent the new Hungary at the Olympic Games. By the time he realises that the revolution is doomed, there is no turning back. He has no choice but to leave his true love behind and, since he cannot fight anymore, do what he does best in order to bring glory and victory to his country in the pool.

This is how he arrives at the Water Polo semi-finals on 6 December, 1956. While Soviet army T-34 tanks are tearing down barricades in his hometown, the Hungarian players are facing their Soviet opponents in the pool. It is now up to Karcsi and his team mates to show the world that this small nation will not be defeated.