Jan Teulings

Marius has gone to sea and left Fanny, who turns out to be pregnant. When Panisse still remains willing to marry her, she accepts in order to safe face.

Jonny loves Jessy, but he likes his car even more and therefore Jessy breaks up with him.

The story of three torn apart families on the verge of Sinterklaasavond, the Dutch equivalent of Christmas Eve.

Уважаемый деревенский врач ван Таеке выполняет свои обязанности, руководствуясь собственным кодексом чести, не разделяя бедных и богатых. Имеющий собственное мнение ван Таеке все чаще раздражает чванливое высшее общество деревни. Проницательного доктора, не желающего подчиняться правилам общины, решают уволить.

Нидерланды, 1934 год. По улицам Амстердама бродит снова выгнанный с уроков 11-летний Циске. Мать замучилась его воспитывать, учителя устали от его шалостей, сверстники не желают общаться с таким психом, полиция обеспокоена все растущей опасностью его выходок... А пацану всего лишь не хватает отца.

Farmer Jan Alting, who has disowned his son for collaborating with the nazis, provides shelter for a Jewish couple, a wanted communist and a rebel aristocrat. When his son returns, Jan is faced with the stark moral choice of failing those to whom he has given refuge, or conspiring with them to kill his own son.

On his wedding day, mere hours before the statute of limitations for his crimes expires, revengeful mobsters abduct former criminal Jean Verdier. The gang leader's daughter - who's still in love with Jean - tries to stall the police until the clock strikes twelve and he can no longer be prosecuted.

An out of work engineer is hired as the private chauffeur of a rich playboy, and has to drive to Vlissingen to pick up the latter's fiancée. On the way back from Vlissingen, the car breaks down and the engineer and the fiancée travel to Rotterdam to get some spare parts -- a trip full of amorous entanglements and mistaken identities.

As years pass, the Craets-Goldeweyn family must cope with the disappearance of the familiar and the inescapable new that imposes itself.