A businessman sits at a bar discussing the uninspired failure of his coworker when a stranger named Stevens declares that he knows a man so happy he's almost crazy. He's referring to his unusual new tenant, Blue - a captivatingly handsome young man who requested to live on the roof of Stevens's skyscraper. Blue has since made a home from a huge packing case that he's painted with colorful figures, complete with a pennant reading, Courage. He's hosted rooftop concerts for Stevens and spoke with confidence about a utopia where all the poor live on rooftops. Skeptical, the businessman agrees to meet this eccentric himself, only to discover Stevens wasn't exaggerating at all. Blue makes anything seem possible with his enthusiastic and verbose nature. As night falls, he tells the businessman how he feels more important than the cosmos because God once took the form of man, and the businessman begins to look upon him with awe after hearing such philosophy. He leaves a changed man, and when he returns many weeks later after a business trip, he finds Blue painting a kite with the same enthusiasm and hope he had before. Blue claims he is spring pouring color on the land, and the businessman can't help but imagine it to be true.