Young American Joanne Hunter is stranded in the German-occupied Holland with her Dutch grandparents. The German CO, Captain Kessel begins to wage war on the village's morale, and Joanne's house must quarter another German officer, Lt. Braun, who finds himself torn between his duty and distaste of Kessel's methods. When Kessel threatens the lead statues of 16th-century freedom fighters in the town clock, Joanne and her grandparents rally the villagers to save Kirkendam's "little riders".
데이트를 즐기던 두쌍의 연인이 탄 엘리베이터가 층과 층사이에 멈춰 질식 직전에 구조된다. 고장난 엘리베이터를 고치기 위해 펠릭스(Felix Adelaar: 휴브 스테펠 분)라는 정비공이 고용되지만 엘리베이터는 고장난 것이 아니었다. 한편 같은 건물에 위치한 부동산 소개소에서 아파트를 구한 맹인 노신사가 엘리베이터를 타려고 하는데 그만 문만 열리고 엘리베이터가 도착하지 않아 추락사하고 만다. 마치 악령이 씌인 듯 계속 하여 사고가 발생하는 엘리베이터에 무언가 있다고 생각한 펠릭스는 여기자와 함께 조사를 시작하는데...
A bored company owner decides to find out what it is like to be one of his workers. During his "transformation" he falls in love with a cafeteria worker. When his alter ego "The Boss" makes an inappropriate comment to his would-be girlfriend, the worker challenges his "Boss" to a Duel.
The lives of Erik Lanshof and five of his closest friends take different paths when the German army invades the Netherlands in 1940: fight and resistance, fear and resignation, collaboration and high treason.
The film features a dystopian near-future world which has been split into three. The Third World are the owners of all of the world's resources and are now able to hold the United States and Europe to ransom.