A man whose empire has collapsed and who has to sell his house... Such a Lance Armstrong greets journalist Juliet Macur when she goes to visit him in his magnificent home. They've faced each other many times. But for the first time there is a defeated man.

Macur is one of the few people Armstrong has agreed to meet in the aftermath of the scandal. But he is determined not to hear his side of the story alone. He interviews more than a hundred people, from family to close friends, from officials to sponsors, from rivals to teammates, who knowingly or unknowingly were part of the big lie. And we are presented with the story of a man with insatiable ambition, a story woven with lies, at times pathetic, at times ridiculous, at times hateful. Macur reveals how a cyclist whose fame transcended cycling deceived officials, journalists and fans for years, how he built a wall around himself to protect his image, sometimes at the cost of people's lives, and how he devilishly masterminded the creation and implementation of the most complex and elaborate doping program of all time, the so-called "Armstrong System".

Lie on Wheels: The Fall of Lance Armstrong is the unbelievable but true story of an athlete who risked creating the largest organized crime syndicate in the history of sport in order not to lose, a story that will stretch the limits of even the richest imagination.