Kirsten Mulder

Двадцатилетняя выпускница университета лесбиянок в Амстердаме готовится к отъезду в Монреаль, тем временем ведя свою общественную жизнь и занимаясь написанием романа.

Tragicomedy about sixty year old housewife Joanna who shows her true colors for the first time in her life when she is confronted by her daughter Isabel with her shortcomings as a person and a mother.

1888: a luthier, Vedder, has to step aside when his home, opposite the recently completed Central Station in Amsterdam, must yield for the planned Victoria Hotel. His cousin Anijs, pharmacist in the Northern provinces of the Netherlands, has gotten into a fix after illegal medical practices, and is looking for a way out. For himself and his wife Martha, but also for a colony of poor peat cutters whom he promises a future in the United States. Committed - or is it pride? - the two of them think up a scheme from which they all will fully benefit. With tragic consequences.