The East German border: 836 miles of barbed-wire walls, automated machine guns, armed guards, and deadly land mines. On September 15, 1979 two families tried to cross it. In the fall of 1979, one of history's most ingenious and courageous flights to freedom took place when two families fled from Communist East Germany to the West in their own handcrafted, hot-air balloon. Walt Disney Home Entertainment brings to the screen this remarkable and true story of the Strelzyk and Wetzel families and their daring, death-defying escape.