A boy and horse are shipwrecked on an island where they become fast friends. Upon their return home they work together for a try to go head to head with the world's best thoroughbreds in "the race of the century."

An adaptation of Walter Farley's classic children's novel, in which an American boy is rescued after a shipwreck off the coast of North Africa by a seemingly untamable wild horse. After surviving together, they develop a bond and begin training to race once they are rescued.