After losing his farm during the floods of 1953, a romantic Dutch farmer is tired of getting his socks wet. He embarks on an epic cycle trip to Italy where he decides to settle down and plant new roots by growing tulips in the sweltering heat of Puglia. Due to his miraculous tulip trade, passionate love-life and turbulent scuffles with dubious local gangsters, he becomes a living legend.
Thirty years later an Italian police inspector attempts to unravel the hilarious story, but struggles to distinguish fact from fiction. It’s with the help of a young Canadian woman visiting from Montreal (to scatter her recently deceased mothers ashes), when he’s finally able to figure out what happened.
Tulipani, Love, Honour and a Bicycle at TIFF is a heart warming tale that will appeal to patriotic Italians, pasta twirling travellers and film fans with a penchant for hilarious tales of small town Europe.
Laugh out loud moments include a mother smearing aggressive gangsters with fresh baby poo, an overtly dramatic grandmother constantly telling tall tales and an oily enema that results in a catastrophic explosion.
