Hiernamaals cuenta la historia de Sam, una niña super inteligente y trabajadora de 14 años que lleva una vida feliz con su padre y sus dos hermanos en el sur de los Países Bajos. Es una buena estudiante, muy estricta consigo misma y siempre llega a tiempo. Ella también cuida a sus dos hermanos menores; Desde que su madre Vera murió, se ha sentido responsable de la familia y ahora cuida la casa con su padre. Una mañana, corriendo a la escuela para ayudar a su maestra de matemáticas a imprimir exámenes, es golpeada por un camión grande y muere. En el más allá, encuentra a su madre esperándola. Es un sentimiento extraño de felicidad y tristeza. Ella descubre que hay un camino de regreso a la vida, pero ¿tendrá éxito en llevar a su madre con ella?
Fidgety Bram (seven years old) thinks a lot about the world around him. He is very much looking forward to enter the first grade. But then he ends up in the class of the strict teacher Mr. Fish. The straightfoward Mr. Fish doesn’t care about the inside world of the constantly moving around and unconcentrated little boy and does whatever it takes to make Bram do things the ‘right’ way.
Every morning six people who live in the same street are taking the bus into town. Thanks to their own routine they survive each day, until one of them meets death.
Olivier calls himself a 'statistical miracle'. He is almost 27 years old but the doctors had predicted that, because of the heart disease he was born with, he would not get much older than 25 years. He doesn't seem to be suffering from the threat of death closing in on him. With unbridled energy, he parties, smokes, drinks and dances until deep into the night, and in the morning wakes up in bed next to girls he doesn't even know. His family and friends alienate from him because of this life style, and the fact that he doesn't have long lasting relationships, doesn't bother him. Olivier lives, day by day. Until new medical technologies make it possible to cure him, and a new future opens up to him. Everybody is happy, but Olivier doesn't know how to deal with the expectations and responsibilities of his new life.
