Fame, wealth, winning appearance - Mistral Vernati, a great racer and Formula 1 champion, has it all. But in his personal life he is lonely; Vernati has an unsuccessful marriage and several short novels behind him. But the racer’s memory stores two female images, inexplicably intertwined in his mind. One of them is his first love Maria, the second is a beautiful stranger, an elegant young woman whom he saw only once... But her image becomes an obsession for Mistral. It will take time before the secret dreams of the brilliant racer come true.