Far from land, where the sea turns grey and the horizon disappears into mist, a handful of sailors attempt something almost impossible: to sail alone around the entire planet without stopping.

In this calm and cinematic episode of Sleepy Sport, sports historian Michael Wiltshire drifts through the beginnings of the Vendée Globe; the world’s most dangerous solo sailing race.

Travel softly through the early dreams of circumnavigation, the tragic Golden Globe Race of 1968, the birth of the Vendée Globe in France, and the lonely journey into the Roaring Forties, where storms roar, swells tower overhead, and solitude becomes a companion.

This is the story of the sailors who set out to meet the ocean at its fiercest point, and discover themselves at the edge of the world. A gentle, atmospheric exploration of courage, isolation, and the quiet beauty of the Southern Ocean.