A professional cycling team faces what might be their last season together, and the show understands that endings are where you finally see what mattered. The death of Marco Rondanini hangs over everything, not as tragedy porn, but as the thing that makes these men ask themselves what they're actually doing on a bike. Pepe and Jean Luigi aren't trying to win the Japan Cup. They're trying to figure out if the life they chose was worth it before the choice gets taken from them.

The Pao Pao Beer cycling team heads east to Japan to ride in the Japan Cup, a newly created race, during what will very likely be their last season together. Pepe Benengeli and his teammate Jean Luigi Ciocci face an uncertain future, and they have not yet made peace with the suicide of Marco Rondanini, one of their heroes and Jean's former mentor. What begins as a sports story becomes something quieter and more human. Weighed down by personal grief as well as the demands of an unfamiliar course, the team wonders whether they still have the strength to keep riding. This single OVA episode blends sports and drama, using the life of a professional cyclist to reflect on what truly matters.