Throughout the back-end of the 19th century, the brilliant however socially unpleasant engineer Sorano Appare as well as the wise yet afraid samurai Isshiki Kosame find themselves drifting in the sea between Japan and also America. Without any money, the duo choose to go into the Trans-America Wild Race to win the prize money so they can get house. The two encounter competitors, outlaws, as well as challenges in the wilderness as they race through America, from the starting line in Los Angeles to the goal in New york city, in the steam-powered vehicle they built. ( Source: MyAnimeList Information).