Sixteen-year-old Dexter is a homeless boy on the streets of New York City, U.S.A. One day he starts kicking a soda can and he gets good at it and a soccer coach at a local community college in NYC sees his potential and invites him to try out for their soccer team. Dexter is puzzled because he doesn't even know what soccer is, however, he takes up the coach's offer and heads off to the community college where to his surprise he has to enroll as a student in order to play for the school. He accepts and studies Natural History while being a star at soccer.