A Turkish girl living in Denmark, Aicha is a tomboy with a handful of anger issues who bristles both at the racist attitudes of native Danes and her parents' traditional beliefs. This is the story of a young girl adrift in a foreign culture who finds reconciliation with her family and romance to boot by playing a forbidden sport. It may ring bells with Bend it Like Beckham, except set in Copenhagen and starring a Muslim girl who wants to do kung fu instead of soccer, Fighter is essentially the same culture clash story, but dramatic in all the places Beckham was light. Fighter follows a traditional trajectory, as Aicha trains for the big tournament and inevitable big face off, but it shies away from a cut-and-dry happy ending, choosing instead to realistically portray the challenges facing Muslims in Western Europe.