影片讲述了一个脾气暴躁、壮志未酬的园丁逃离原本生活,通过翱翔蓝天探索新世界的故事。乔治·朔尔施·肯普特是巴伐利亚一个小镇上的园丁,每天在他的苗圃忙进忙出,可苗圃却面临着破产的危机。他不善言辞,向来沉默。他的婚姻早已丧失了激情,更严重的问题是他也很难和女儿沟通。只有在驾驶自己摇摇晃晃的双翼飞机时,他才真正感觉自由。当地的高尔夫球场老板试图抵赖朔尔施的工钱,谎称他种在球场上的绿草颜色不对。破产危机在劫难逃,当他的飞机将被扣押之时,朔尔施推动控制杆冲上蓝天,拯救了自己和他的飞机。他踏上了未知的旅程,去到了他从未见过的地方,邂逅了各种奇特的人和物,每次起飞和着陆,都让这个硬汉的内心慢慢升温,逐渐走向了幸福...... 他在这个出乎意料的旅程中恢复了好奇心,获得了内心的和平,找到了一种值得为之奋斗的生活。Georg "Schorsch" Kempter is a gardener in a small Bavarian town, working day-in, day-out in his nursery, which is facing bankruptcy. He doesn't like to talk much. He never has. His marriage has long lost all its magic and on top of that, he has trouble to connect with his daughter. Only when he is flying in his own rickety biplane, Schorsch feels truly free. When the owner of the local golf course tries to cheat Schorsch for his money, claiming the shade of green of the grass Schorsch has planted on the golf course is not right, insolvency seems unavoidable. So just when his airplane is about to be impounded, Schorsch grabs the control stick and flies away in an attempt to save his plane and himself. He embarks onto a journey into the unknown, to places he has never seen before, full of odd and special encounters - and with every take-off and every landing, this tough man's heart slowly warms up to what you might call an idea of happiness.
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