Against the backdrop of a seemingly posh hockey club, three middle-aged men are fighting desperately against the passing of time and the new zeitgeist. In their urge to score one more time, the three friends make one mistake after another, which almost leads to their downfall.

The Duch painter Vincent Van Gogh grew up in the family of a stern Calvinist country pastor, feeling a misunderstood misfit, obsessed by painting, while his elder brother Theo left for Brussels, later Paris, and became an art dealer. Vincent tried an alternative career as missionary to the Catlolic Walloon mineworkers in the Ardennes but returns, broke and failed again. Later he'll move in with Th...