100 years after the birth of Ernest Hemingway, Palin sets out to discover the man behind the legend: a hard-drinking, womaniser who liked cats and shooting - but wrote like a dream and left an indelible impression on the 20th century through his work... Palin's travels take him to Hemingway's Chicago roots, the Italian battlefields of WW1 and Carnival in Venice, running with the bulls at Pamplona and the Fallas festival in Valencia, the early years in Paris, marlin fishing in Cuba, on safari in Africa, and back to the States, with Hemingway look-alikes in Key West and the Wild West of Montana and Idaho...