11岁天才自行车少年Freddy是一个屠夫的儿子，他们居住在一个人烟稀少的小岛上，他们的村庄犹如田园诗歌般的美丽。1975年，当这个村庄里第一家超市开张时，他之前那孤独的生活彻底改变了。为了庆祝开业，超市组织了一场自行车比赛，冠军可以和Eddy Merckx见面。由于生意竞争，Freddy的父亲是超市的强烈反对者，但是Freddy还是瞒着他父亲悄悄的报了名。这项由许多人一起参加的比赛不仅仅在Freddy面前，同时也在他周围人的面前打开了一个全新的世界。

Handsome Dutchman Stijn is the star of an advertising agency with his buddy Frenk and a hot womanizer. The boys start their own agency and Stijn marries colleague Carmen, who accepts his incurable greed for truly meaningless one-night-stands. Even fatherhood and a move to the boring country go well, until Carmen gets breast cancer. Now their lives are turned upside-down, maybe wrecked