The series tells the story of the fates and lives of six people from Germany, Israel, France, the Soviet Union and the USA: Wernher von Braun, Hedwig Höss, Nikita Khrushchev, Joan Hinton, Golda Meir and Frantz Fanon.
1939. The Second World War begins in Europe. The young engineer Wernher von Braun wants to go to the moon, but puts himself in the service of the Nazis.