The magical land of the Alps nurtures free souls all the time, and the people who live in this land remain pure and tenacious in their relationship with the natural world, and live transparently and clearly in harmony with nature.
Filmed in the Alps over seven years, the film features a young eagle that has fallen off a cliff by nature's survival of the fittest rules, with only three characters: Renault, Boy Lucas, and Boy Father.
The story of the relationship between the characters is simple and compact, and the emphasis is on the close-up of the creatures in this land in the Alps, as if it is an animal world documentary, the life in the beautiful natural scenery is flexibly presented on the screen, the editing is very clever, you will feel that this is the magic of nature, not the choreographer's one-handed planning.
The story runs through the biblical story of the brothers Cain and Abel, and the boy Lucas also named the young eagle Abel, who is the younger eagle's older brother, implying that the young eagle Abel has lost the battle with his brother in the eagle king.
Young Lucas played with fire and burned the family house by mistake, in order to save him, his mother died, his father was grumpy, Lucas was unwilling to reconcile with himself, the father and son each had their own hearts, almost did not speak, the relationship was tense, their sensitivity to matches was enough to see the fear in their hearts, unwilling to accept this heavy fact.
The young Lucas rescues the young eagle who has fallen off the cliff, named Abel, and secretly raises it in the ruins of his secret base, the burned-out home, which is where he escapes from his father, and the teenager carefully feeds Abel, and with the help of ranger Renault, they train Abel to fly, hunt, and become a real eagle to survive in this land.
Abel's upbringing delighted the teenager, and in order to get Abel acclimated to life in the wild, Lucas decided to let Abel go, and they walked a long way to take Abel to the mountains farther away, because there could only be one Eagle King in the local area, and Abel could not yet confront Cain.
After Abel left, Lucas was depressed, he built a foundation with stones, inserted Lucas's faded feathers, and waited for Lucas, in the dark he believed that Lucas also missed him, although they could not communicate by voice, but this did not prevent them from entering each other's lives and becoming psychological support.
Lucas had been waiting for Abel by the stone pile, and he was curled up in the snow, praying in his heart.
The father discovered his secret base and angrily questioned, the father and son finally faced the tiger in their hearts, the father's love never disappeared, hidden under the father's stern and fierce face, Lucas never noticed.
The family portrait that came out of the fire made them both see their hearts.
Alpine avalanche, in the face of disaster Lucas is bent on finding Abel, against the direction of the avalanche shouted, in the face of the disaster his father finally awakened, although the heart demon is difficult to overcome, but nothing more important than his son, he found the injured Reynolds at the bottom of the mountain and brought home, the father and son finally froze the previous suspicion. Reconcile with your past selves and embrace the future.
Abel returned to the place where he was born, a mountain range can only have one eagle king, facing him is a decisive battle with his brother, the two most powerful eagles in the Alps, Abel is defeated, but as Reynolds said: there are many ways to win, courage can win respect.
Abel returned, and Lucas held out his arm to greet the old fellow, and they had written their own happy endings to each other's achievements.
Cain dies in an avalanche, Abel becomes a veritable Eagle King, Lucas takes the small metal ring from Abel's left foot and gives him complete freedom, Abel is the Eagle King of the Alps.
Somewhere on a cliff, a baby eagle broke out of its shell, and everyone had a new life.
All stories have no ending, and the ending needs to be written by ourselves.
Some fate-changing misfortunes in life do not give us that you only deserve the corresponding bad ending, but remind us that it is time to change ways to meet another kind of realization, and the road to happiness is still the same.