An old brass ticket machine prints a ticket for a journey in 1888: Mannheim to Pforzheim, single. Through the next door, Ollie and Zara find Bertha Benz and her two sons quietly pushing the world's first car out of the yard before dawn, to drive it further than anyone ever has. Ollie is sure the engine is all that matters. A hundred kilometres of hills, a chemist's shop and a dark descent will teach him otherwise.