Towards the backdrop of the 1961 Swedish Grand Prix, East German motorbike racer Ernst Degner flees the Iron Curtain. Returning to the racetrack the next season with Suzuki, the motive force wins the world championship and catapults the Japanese industrial big into world domination of the motorbike business. Set the place two worlds collide – the color and freedom of the West contrasts the oppression and risk of Chilly Warfare East Germany.
