At the outbreak of the First WW, the notorious poet-boxer and draft-dodger Arthur Cravan embarked on a flight that took him from modernist Paris to revolutionary Mexico, where he disappeared in mysterious circumstances. Ninety years later, a young man sets out in his footsteps in the hope of shedding some light on his final moments. As the journey takes him further and further from his former life, it emerges that, like Cravan, he is running away from something dark and dangerous.