In 1957, decades before Steve Jobs founded Apple or Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook, a group of eight young and brilliant minds left the Shockley Semiconductor company to start their own project in transistor manufacturing. Their leader was Robert Noyce, then 29 years old, a brilliant physicist with exceptional sales skills, who would later help invent the electronic chip, which has since become the essential and fundamental component of nearly all modern electronics, including computers, cars, mobile phones, and various household appliances. Through the story of these bright and ambitious young dreamers, this remarkable documentary tells the tale of the famous Silicon Valley.