科林·蒙哥马利(Colin Montgomery)--一个雄心勃勃的年轻的纽约金融财务主管，为了争取到富有的杜拜酋长谢赫·阿卜杜拉·纳耶德(Sheikh Abdullah Nayed)成为其公司的客户，假扮高中老师科林·埃文斯(Colin Evans)到比利时的佛兰德斯小镇，替酋长收购其梦寐以求的冠军赛鸽-小白头(Wittekop)，由于冠军鸽的主人乔斯·鲍维尔(Jos Pauwels)拒绝以任何价格出售被当成儿子化身的鸽子小白头，于是冒充高中老师的科林以寻找在第一次世界大战中丧生的曾祖父坟墓为由，踏遍了佛兰德斯小镇，以便寻到乔斯的弱点买下冠军鸽小白头，在这过程中科林被这个魅力小镇与乔斯的孙女伊莎贝尔(Isabelle)所俘虏，但为了完成任务，科林不得不出卖伊莎贝尔，最后...

Colin（Jamie Dornan), 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.