The Budapest-Bamako is billed as the world's largest amateur rally, sending teams from Hungary across the Sahara to West Africa on whatever vehicles they can get running. This film follows three Norwegian entrants attempting the full 9,000-kilometer route on Vespas that are twenty years old, alongside race founder Andrew G. Szabo as he tracks the chaos he set in motion. The cameras catch the scooters bouncing over broken roads through Morocco, Mauritania, Senegal, and Guinea Bissau, with breakdowns, roadside repairs, and the kind of improvisation that keeps a twenty-year-old engine alive in desert heat. Between the mechanical crises the film lingers on the landscapes and towns the rally passes through, giving the trip as much travelogue as competition. There is no real prize at stake beyond finishing, and the film treats the destination as secondary to the ordeal of getting there, three men and two scooters against a continent's worth of terrain.