From
the outside, the world of pigeon fanciers is poetic in many respects. Pigeon
fanciers spend their free time looking after birds and watching them fly over
their houses' roofs. On the other hand pigeons seem to pay back this love when
they are far away and succeed in finding the way back home with great
perseverance. But next to the pigeon fanciers' unquestionable love for animals
and breeding, there is also a taste for competition which makes them organize
races between "stables". The documentary shows them discussing
breeding methods in farm yards o in the Association office. Then we see them
waiting for the racing pigeons to arrive. But victory, the reward to all their
efforts, does not always come.
