Philippe de Smet

Quando o conhecido escritor Dries é abordado por três músicos deficientes que pedem que ele seja o baterista na banda deles, termina ficando intrigado e concorda. Cada um dos parceiros de banda tem suas próprias excentricidades e psicoses e lentamente Dries começa a gostar de estar neste mundo, enquanto a banda prepara sua única apresentação, em um festival de rock local. Um dos integrantes é quase surdo, o outro não pode mover um braço e o terceiro é um estuprador e um assassino. Dries, por sua vez, é um autêntico niilista sarcástico e acha que pode encontrar nisso um bom material para escrever seu próximo livro.

After a violent dispute with her mother, sixteen-years old Chloé ends up in the streets with nowhere to go. Then she finds Jean-Michel, a charming young man who will lead her to prostitution.

Two young men have left their obscure Balkan country to earn some money as "guest workers" in western Europe. On their way back home, they attempt to change trains in Paris but encounter surprising difficulties from the ticket authorities there. It seems that political changes have rendered their homeland nonexistent, and their passports are no good. Before long, they are stranded in Paris without passports, without a country, and soon even their luggage is stolen. Their fumbling efforts to straighten out the mess result in the French press getting into the act, labeling them as Russian spies. The Parisian expatriate community takes them into its bosom, and romance blooms between one of the lads and a Spanish hatmaker, before they finally achieve a (highly improbable) solution for their difficulties.

Antwerp in the fifties. Robin de Hert grew up in a Catholic parochial environment; on the one hand there is his authoritarian father and the sadistic secretary of the Catholic boys technical school, on the other hand there are the 'Grieten' and the French teacher with whom Robin is getting a good band through a secret they share. If the secretary finds out about this secret, this has major implications for both the teacher and the students ...