Dairy cows must calve every year to keep producing milk, but the male calves born in the process have no place in an industry built around milk yield. This DW film follows the farmers, scientists and butchers in southern Germany, Austria and Italy trying to change what happens to them. Dairy farmer Marcel Renz works to shorten transport routes and pay for higher animal welfare standards, while butcher Hannes Hönegger sources meat from small organic farms using dual-purpose breeds suited to both milk and meat, feeding almost entirely on pasture grass. Thomas Zanon, an assistant professor of livestock farming at the University of Bolzano, keeps a rescued herd of bull calves on his mountain pasture instead of sending them to fattening operations outside the EU, and argues that dairy milk holds up well against oat or soy substitutes. Shot across alpine meadows from the Allgäu to South Tyrol, the film uses these three men's work to lay out a quieter alternative to industrial calf transport and feedlot fattening.