提是挪威海岸线的钻油台工人，中年突逢妻子意外身亡，迫使他必须得单独照顾他们共同领养的小男孩丹尼尔。过去仰赖亡妻积习成惯，使杰提作为单亲爸爸的过程备受波折；在无法承担父职压力下，杰提决定带着丹尼尔，回到小男孩的原生地，南美洲的哥伦比亚，去寻找他的原生母亲。父子二人，在当地一位计程车问将的协助下，展开一段有笑有泪，出乎意料的温情寻根之旅。

After his wife"s death, offshore oil worker Kjetil is having a hard time relating to his adopted son Daniel. In an act of desperation, he brings Daniel along to Colombia to search for the boy"s biological mother.