科林(詹米·多南 Jamie Dornan 饰)是一名野心勃勃的金融家,一心希望腰缠万贯的迪拜酋长谢赫(奥马尔·本·哈依德 Omar Bin Haider 饰)能够成为自己的客户。谢赫希望得到一只名为小白头的赛鸽,然而,赛鸽的主人乔斯(简·德克莱尔 Jan Decleir 饰)早已经将小白头当成了自己的家人,绝对不可能因为金钱将小白头出卖。 科林决定代替谢赫出面,帮他拿下小白头。他隐姓埋名假扮成一名高中老师来到了乔斯所在的小镇上,通过捏造的过去不断的接近这乔斯和他的孙女伊莎贝尔(Charlotte De Bruyne 饰),在此过程中,善良开朗的伊莎贝尔渐渐吸引了科林的注意,令他坠入了情网。Colin, an ambitious young New York finance executive, needs to clinch a deal with a wealthy Dubai sheik, who has a weakness for pigeon racing. They make a bargain: the sheik will sign if Colin can get him a particular pigeon, the perfect bird to win the prestigious Barcelona international race. This bird has been trained in Flanders, but the owner refuses to sell at any price. Posing as a school teacher searching for the grave of an ancestor killed in the First World War, Colin travels to the little Flemish village where the pigeon fancier lives and starts to look for something that will separate the bird from its owner. But in the process he falls under the spell of the place and of Isabelle, the pigeon fancier's spirited granddaughter.