Bertha Benz - Carl Benz’ business partner and wife - was instrumental to the founding of Mercedes-Benz’. The film told the story of the world’s first long-distance drive from Mannheim to Pforzheim (Germany) in 1888. Early one morning, Bertha took her two sons out for the twelve-hour, 106-km / 65-mile trip. Seeing the potential of her husband’s invention, she was determined to prove it worked at a time when people were sceptical of this new technology.