Summer of 1957. Despite his successes in Formula 1, former race car driver Enzo Ferrari is experiencing a crisis. The factory that he and his wife Laura built from the ground up ten years earlier is facing bankruptcy. Their unstable marriage fell apart a year earlier after the loss of their son Dino. Ferrari is fighting for his son Piero, the result of an affair with Lina Lardi, to be officially recognized as a member of the family.