THE STRAIT GUYS follows Czech-born mining engineer, George, and his fast-talking protégé, Scott, along the proposed route of the InterContinental Railway through Alaska, to the Bering Strait and onward to Russia. The “Strait Guys” endeavor to convince international governments, corporations, and indigenous tribes to green-light their $100 billion railway project, which would provide ground-based infrastructure across the continents, relieve overcrowded Pacific ports, improve global supply chains, and ease tensions between the superpowers. The US and Russia have been successfully collaborating in space for decades. Now the Strait Guys are out to prove it is also possible down here on earth.

"The Strait Guys" folgt dem in Tschechien geborenen, etwas mürrischen Bergbauingenieur George und seinem redegewandten Schützling Scott entlang der vorgeschlagenen Route der Interkontinentalen Eisenbahn durch Alaska, zur Beringstraße und weiter nach Russland. Die "Strait Guys" versuchen, internationale Regierungen, Unternehmen und indigene Stämme davon zu überzeugen, ihrem 100-Milliarden-Dollar Eisenbahnprojekt grünes Licht zu geben - mit dem Versprechen, der Panamakanal des 21.

Um rabugento engenheiro de minas tcheco e seu pupilo tagarela juntam forças com visionários russos para ousar o impossível: ligar os Estados Unidos à Rússia por um túnel de cem quilômetros sob o estreito de Bering