Cast aside by his family at an early age, abandoned and left to fend for himself in the woods of Washington State, young Joe Rantz turns to rowing as a way of escaping his past.
Stroke by stroke, a remarkable young man strives to regain his shattered self-regard, to dare again to trust in others - and.
What follows is an extraordinary journey, as Joe and eight other working-class Boys exchange the sweat and dust of life in 1930s America for the promise of glory at the heart of Hitler\'s Berlin.
Cast aside by his family at an early age, abandoned and left to fend for himself in the woods of Washington State, young Joe Rantz turns to rowing as a way of escaping his past