Roper and his wife Lanalee are on hard times and have only silverleaf soup to eat. They have already begun to talk of eating the family kodo when Lanalee finds a flyer in Gadgetzan promoting a race to be held in the Shimmering Flats, with a prize that is more than enough to buy food with. But does the family kodo have it in him to win the race? And even if they do win, who will lose, and what will be the consequences of either winning or losing? Especially when the other racers belong to the thuggish Grimtotem clan...