Tulipani: Love, Honour and a Bicycle

TULIPANI tells the story of a romantic Dutch farmer named Gauke (Gijs Naber) who, after losing his farm during the floods of 1953, is determined to never ever have wet socks again. He cycles to the sizzling-hot south of Italy to start a new life and ends up at the outskirts of a small village in Puglia. Due to his fairylike and miraculous tulip trade, his passionate love-life, and his turbulent scuffles with the dubious local business practices, he becomes a living legend--then suddenly disappears. 30 years later, an Italian police inspector (Giancarlo Giannini) attempts to unravel the story, but struggles to distinguish fact from fiction. With help from young Canadian Anna (Ksenia Solo), he discovers what truly happened.