After a long haul with a convoy of articulated lorries travelling from the north of England to Brussels in Belgium, Jim Gibbon and his team from the Up North Combine released thousands of pigeons for the long flight home.
It is this journey, the organisation that gave rise to it, the lives of the fanciers, the drivers, and of course the pigeons that provide the backbone of our film. The kernal is the liberation of the birds and their astonishing struggle to get back to their lofts. The key attribute of these "athletes of the sky", as Jim Gibbon explains, is their combination of stamina and brains.