Marty Mauser, a young man with a dream no one respects, goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness in the world of table tennis. Oscar nominated for Best Film and Best Actor for Timothée Chalamet in this accelerated story of battling against the odds.
1952. Twenty-three year old New Yorker Marty Mauser puts one hundred and ten percent into everything he does; unfortunately for the world it is all in pursuit of his own self-absorbed wants as he takes advantage of everyone in his orbit. For every step forward Marty takes in his pursuit to make it to the championships, he always seems to take two steps in a wrong direction