The Road of Excess follows Welsh TV personality Mat Pritchard, once the hard-living star of MTV’s cult series Dirty Sanchez. At the height of its early-2000s fame, the show made him notorious for stunts fuelled by pain, chaos, and bravado. But when the cameras stopped rolling, Matt’s life spiralled into depression and substance abuse.

Determined to fight his demons, he traded one addiction for another: endurance sport. Ultra-triathlons, extreme cycling, long-distance swims — each challenge bigger than the last, each pushing him further from his past but never closer to peace.

In 2020, he set his sights on his most extreme test yet: rowing across the Atlantic Ocean. Fifty days at sea, two hours rowing on, two hours off, with nothing but his thoughts and the open water.

Through candid interviews with his mother, closest friends, and former co-stars, The Road of Excess explores Matt’s rise and fall and his relentless search for balance. It is both an unflinching portrait of addiction and a moving meditation on resilience, redemption, and the endless human drive to endure.