Tulips is a story of passion, a journey into Southern Italy during the 1950s and 1980s, a film about rediscovering your roots whilst also making your peace with the past. Anna travels to Apulia from Canada to bring home the ashes of her mother, who was from Apulia. Whilst there, she uncovers some unsettling truths about her family, who her real parents were and how, twenty-five years previously, they took a stand against the local mafia in field of tulips.