For Diego tells the story of Pablo and Diego, two brothers working as dishwashers at a bar and playing soccer in the afternoons. One day, on their way back home from a game, Diego is hit by a car and the driver flees. Pablo and his widowed mother are unable to pay for the surgeries necessary to keep Diego alive, which leads Pablo to recruit a team of seven eclectic friends to participate in a football tournament and win the $100,000 pesos prize necessary to save his brother's life.