A provincial town in Romania is home to a man who for many years now has been championing radical changes to the rules of soccer: the shape of the field, the offside rule—everything needs changing to set the ball free.

Is there a better way to play soccer? Romanian New Wave director Corneliu Porumboiu (The Whistlers) brings his delightfully inquisitive and dryly humorous perspective to a truly one-of-a-kind man who imagines just that. And if a beloved sport can be re-thought, can we re-imagine a better world?