Still mourning the death of her mother a few years back, Alice McKinley finds her life seriously disrupted when her father Ben buys a store and moves her and her older brother Lester to a new town.

乔（布拉德·皮特 Brad Pitt 饰）和比利（瑞克·斯克路德 Rick Schroder 饰）是情同手足的兄弟，两人由单身母亲罗斯玛丽（卡利·绍德莱斯 Carrie Snodgress 饰）辛劳拉扯养大，感情十分要好。成年之后，乔和比利的性格出现了巨大的差异，乔品学兼优是众人眼中的有用之才，而比利却因为结交损友，而走上了歧途。 乔热爱赛跑，他不仅加入了校队，还在训练和比赛之中展现了惊人的天赋。一直担心着兄弟的境况，乔劝说比利也加入校队，令乔没有想到的是，一直以来深藏不露的比利竟然展现出了高自己一等的跑步天赋。比利的回归虽然令乔高兴，但在内心里，乔却真实地感受到了一种深深的失落，一蹶不振的他准备放弃即将开始的比赛。

6年级的马蒂和他的家人试图帮助夏伊洛（宠物狗）先前的主人贾德·特拉弗斯，他从一次几乎致命的卡车交通事故中拯救了自己。马蒂和他的家人努力往好的一面想，相信贾德能改正自己错误，不过社区里的其他人确信贾德永远不会改变。希望按照拯救贾德其他的狗的方式来拯救夏伊洛，马蒂开始帮助贾德去关心动物。不过，当贾德被怀疑谋杀了一个已经失踪的人时，马蒂担心他把自己和夏伊洛置身于一个危险的处境中。

Soccer Dog: European Cup opens with the titular hero, Kimble, escaping the clutches of an evil scientist, bent on performing animal experiments. Our plucky canine hero then falls into the hands of Zack (Jake Thomas), an American boy who's been brought to Scotland after the death of his mother to be reunited with the father he never knew, Brian (Nick Moran). After a bumpy introduction, father and son eventually connect by playing soccer together, and when the unusually nimble Kimble storms onto the field one day, their lives change forever.