In the summer of 1860, Willie Hunt, a young Canadian aerialist known as The Great Farini, engaged in a number of breathtaking tightrope duels with his French archrival Blondin. In Daredevil Over Niagara, amateur ropewalker Max Mitchell and his brother Marty, along with their friend Trudy Reeves, take a trip down the River of Time to Niagara Falls, where they become friends with Farini and witness his breathtaking triumphs -- and his final death-defying stunt, one so perilous it leads Farini to the very brink of the American Falls