football under cover is a documentary directed ayat najafi and david assmann about the real soccer game between the iranian women’s international football (soccer) team and an amateur female soccer team from berlin, bsv al-dersimspor. marlene, a member of the berlin team learns about the iranian female national team through an iranian friend named ayat. from this point on, ayat and marlene take on the difficult task of organizing a soccer match between the two teams. due to the strict rules of iranian government and society, the iranian women’s team had never played a game against another team before. therefore, marlene convinces her team to travel to iran with her to help change this.