Girl on a Bicycle

What happens when Italian passion in love with German temperament encounters French beauty, and British humor adds the finishing touch? Turbulent chaos that crosses all borders. Every day, bus driver Paolo (Vincenzo Amato) drives tourists through Paris and fervently explains to them his own point of view: Paris is nothing more than a second-class Rome. His true passion is his girlfriend and great love Greta (Nora Tschirner), a German flight attendant he's finally ready to propose to today. But the very next day, he meets enchanting Frenchwoman Cecile (Louise Monot). The young single mother of two just barely gets by as an advertising model and is always rushing from one appointment to another on her bicycle. At a red light, her glance briefly meets that of the tourist-bus driver--and she smiles at him. From that moment on, Paolo can't think straight. He's in love with Greta, but this unknown beauty has turned his head. His best friend Derek (Paddy Considine), a smart Brit with a penchant for womanizing, gives him a disastrous piece of advice: the only way to forget this woman is to meet her, because reality is never as wonderful as the fantasy image. But his attempt to talk to Cecile goes wrong; he hits her bicycle with his bus. Plagued by a guilty conscience, Paolo decides to take care of Cecile and her little family, of course without telling Greta--he simply isn't able, nor is he willing. After all, he knows how feisty his girlfriend can be. Thus: a small lie that turns his life completely upside-down.