In 1952, twenty-three year old medical student Ernesto Guevara de la Serna (better known as Che Guevera) postpones his last semester to accompany his twenty-nine year old biochemist friend Alberto Granado on his four month, 8,000 km long dream motorcycle trip throughout South America starting from their home in Buenos Aires.

Their quest is to see things they've only read about in books about the continent on which they live, and to finish on Alberto's 30th birthday in Venezuela, but not all goes to plan due to a broken down motorbike, a continual lack of money, arguments between the two in their frequent isolation solely with each other, their raging libidos which sometimes get them into trouble, and dealing with Ernesto's chronic asthma. However, a chance encounter with a couple of Communists in the Chilean desert, and an extended visit to the San Pablo Leper Colony in the Perúvian Amazon Basin among other things, profoundly affects what each will want to do with his life and the bond each has with the other

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