Summer 2008. In West-Flanders a family of flax growers starts the new season. Walter and Wilfer Devos, two brothers past seventy, head the production. For fifty years now they work as if time stood still. The Flemish flax growers’ golden days are far gone, but the brothers are tough survivors. They have known hard times, but have farmed well in the end, not by modernizing, but by high-handedly continuing in their own way. For fifty years, their world has not changed, but the modern society with its regulations and prescriptions breaks in. Suddenly, the government threatens to close their familiar working place because it is no longer in conformity with the law. The brothers refuse to reconcile themselves with the situation, but a closure seems inevitable. Vlasman (Flax Man) is an ode to a lost generation of flax growers as well as to a way of living that is about to fade away.