2 November 2004, shortly before nine in the morning. In The Hague, the report comes in that in Amsterdam Theo van Gogh has been murdered. All warning bells start ringing. With the country in flames, sometimes literally, politicians and officials in The Hague have to neutralise all sorts of known and unknown stings, and just when Van Gogh’s cremation seems to herald a period of relative peace, a second explosion follows: the attack on the Hofstad Network in the Laakkwartier in The Hague. A reconstruction of nine days of political high tension and flying dust, a decade after the assassination of the trendsetting filmmaker and TV presenter.
A man finds a phone in the park, while he's walking his dog. When a message comes in from Mohammed, he can't control his curiosity. What follows is a view on a special happening, from the corner of a café.
Basado en el film homónimo del malogrado director holandés Theo Van Gogh. Pierre Peders (Steve Buscemi), un prestigioso corresponsal de guerra que atraviesa un momento crítico, se ha endurecido presenciando las inimaginables atrocidades cometidas por las tropas. Un día su editor lo obliga a entrevistar a Katya (Sienna Miller), la actriz de telenovelas más famosa del mundo. Aunque ofendido y humillado, Pierre se pone en contacto con Katya, convencido de que la entrevista será absurda e irrelevante; sin embargo, su encuentro con la mujer le deparará más de una sorpresa; descubre que bajo el glamour y el lujo que la rodean, hay una mujer inteligente, de ingenio afilado, con sus cicatrices y recovecos. Ambos comienzan a tejer entonces una entrevista llena de afiladas críticas, tensión sexual y lúcidas reflexiones sobre todo y sobre todos.
Mrs. Boon is taken to a nursing home. She can no longer live by herself and her war memories of the Japanese POW camp increasingly determine her life; she is clearly suffering from a concentration-camp syndrome. The young and largely immigrant nursing home staff does not really see what is the matter or know much about the history Mrs. Boon lives in, which elicits some unadulterated racist statements from her. Things grow worse when the new resident Mrs. Cohen arrives, a Jew who survived Auschwitz. And they are not the only ones in the home with a 'war past'.
Un periodista a quien le han asignado entrevistar a estrella holandesa Katja Schuurman (interpretándose a sí misma) en el apartamento de la actriz, se siente desilusionado por la superficialidad del encargo, ya que sus tareas habituales son como corresponsal político. Al principio no sabe qué puede preguntar, pero pronto afloran los secretos más oscuros de ambos...
