A 10-time World Record holder, the best fin swimmer on the planet ends up bedridden after heroic rescue of drowning passengers in a catastrophic bus accident. Informed he would never be able to compete again due to his injuries, he challenges fate by returning to sports and breaks the World Record for the 11th time.
Shavo [Shah-vo], the best fin swimmer in the nation, has no equal in water. His sporting achievements at the age of 22 brought him national fame, but his goal is the World Championship in Munich. Shavo is excited to be a part of the competition. He’s on cloud nine about his upcoming wedding with Alisa, his beloved fiancée. Despite achieving the top result during the qualifying stage of the World Championship, and much to everyone’s surprise, Shavo does not get selected for the Team. His dreams are shattered, but his will is not broken - and with an even greater zeal, he starts training intensively for the next championship.
His pillar of support is his coach, who has turned down an offer to train the National Team due to their rejection of Shavo. Believing that Shavo is unique, and the one who should be representing the country at the international level, the coach creates a special training program for Shavo. Shavo starts every morning with a long run around a deep polluted lake - with a super heavy backpack. One day towards the end of his exhausting run, Shavo witnesses a horrific tragedy. A bus full of passengers loses control and drives full speed off a dam and into the lake. In less than a minute, circles of water close above the people trapped inside. Without hesitating even for a second, Shavo dives into the murky, ice-cold water, and for twenty minutes straight, he keeps saving lives, one by one - not knowing that deep underwater is also Alisa, his beloved.
This humanly impossible rescue operation puts an end to Shavo’s career. A massive blood sepsis from his injuries and a double pneumonia leave Shavo fighting for his life. No one believes that Shavo can ever be a competing athlete again, not even Shavo himself. In saving others, he lost his love, Alisa, and his faith in his future. Shavo eventually finds a way to challenge himself, and returns to his training. But on the very first day, right after jumping into the water, he suddenly finds himself gasping for air, blood running from his nose. His doctor shocks him with the diagnosis - it was the incident that has triggered this rare life-threatening condition of severe water allergy that will prevent Shavo from entering water ever again. His will unbroken, he decides to continue his training out of water, next time facing it only at the starting line to break the World Record for the 11th time.
