John Z DeLorean’s extraordinary and doomed attempt to build the sports car of the future in 1980s Northern Ireland is the stuff of legend. A buccaneering American entrepreneur, DeLorean had film star looks, a famous fashion model as a wife and an enormous ego that drove him to rival the giants of the US car industry.

Millions of pounds of British tax-payers money later, an unprecedented social experiment where Catholics and Protestants worked side by side in relative harmony in West Belfast ends in a trail of corporate waste, greed, fraud and, incredibly, an FBI cocaine-trafficking sting.

In this multi episode definitive scripted series - using rare and unseen footage filmed by Oscar winning directors DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus and through colourful news archive - we unpack Delorean's extraordinary life and career, uncovering an in-depth psychological profile of the man who rose from the ghettos of Detroit to build his American team in war-torn Belfast. 

A dream that quickly went up in smoke and cocaine...