A film that tells the human and sporting story of one of the greatest motor racing drivers of all time: Ralph De Palma. A tale that recounts the long and tortuous journey of his life, starting from his childhood in a small village in Apulia, to his move to the United States; the passage from the peasant civilisation of the early 1900s to that of a great metropolis projected into the future. The dreams of a poor child who leaves his mother and his homeland to seek his fortune overseas will come true on the racetracks where his car will force every opponent to eat his dust.