The extraordinary inside story of the biggest scientific challenge of our age – following a small band of vaccine scientists around the world who took on COVID-19 and ultimately delivered the weapon to beat it.
As news of COVID-19 broke around the globe, a small group of scientists jumped into action to tackle one of the greatest medical challenges of our time – to create a vaccine against a virus no one had ever seen before, and to do so in record time, during a deadly, global pandemic.
This film, shot on five continents, is the first to be rooted in behind-the-scenes access during 2020 and 2021 to all the world’s front-running vaccine research teams. It tells the inspiring story of the unprecedented global quest to design vaccine candidates in days and weeks instead of years before putting them through rigorous trials to prove that they were safe and that they worked.
From vaccine design challenges to the pitfalls of trial recruitment, the pressure of politics to the logistics of mass manufacturing, we follow a handful of key scientists, sharing their heart-breaking setbacks as well as exhilarating triumphs, in an emotional and uplifting insight into this extraordinary scientific endeavour.
