The Walk is the true story of a young dreamer, French high-wire artist Philippe Petit, and a band of unlikely recruits who together achieve the impossible: an illegal high-wire walk across the immense void between the two World Trade Centre towers in 1974. With little more than nerve and blind ambition, Petit and his ragtag crew overcome daunting physical obstacles, betrayals, countless close calls and overwhelming odds to beat the system and execute their mad plan.