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- A serial adulterer faces his demons when his loving wife falls severely ill.
- A successful, city-based construction manager finds herself reconsidering her cosmopolitan life choices when her employer relocates her to a folksy seaside town.
- After giving birth to her first child, a happily-married woman sees her picture-perfect life spiral out of control.
- Robertico is living in Curacao with Noella Maduro. While he is preparing to ask her to marry him, something happens to Ken Maduro, Noella's dad. Things go wrong, and Noelle tells Robertico she wants a time-out and flies to her dad in The Netherlands. Noella has to take her fathers job in hosting an special auction together with an wealthy young man. When Robertico finds out about this, he also flies to The Netherlands to win over Noella. With the help of his aunt Judeska, the other staff of FC Kip"Radjesh,Noltie & Kofi", and Asian hustler Ping Ping, he hopes he can convince her to marry him.
- Laura Fischer has a session with a psychologist. The session begins with the young woman telling that after two years of successive rapes of female students riding bicycles in the woods near the campus of the college where she studied, student Emma Machielsen has formed a committee with Josien Schippers, Marieke Kopermode, and Bonnie Javoer to discuss a possible solution with the dean. However, the dean claims that he has no budget to improve the security and can only afford to provide three buses for the students. The girls decide to bike through the woods together in convoy, but when Marieke is late, they leave her alone on the campus. She decides to cross the woods alone, and the serial rapist rapes her. Her friends decide to investigate the crimes by themselves and they prepare a list of possible rapists, leading the group to a tragic consequence.
- Recently-divorced fortysomething Doris lives in Amsterdam with her two teenagers. Ever since her ex-husband started his new life, she has been dreaming of her lifelong best friend Tim. Taking the opportunity of a trip, she decides to reveal her feelings to him, but he tells her that he loves another woman.
- Teacher ("Mees") Kees and his class must perform a play on stage in a nearby elderly-home. Instead of performing the original play written by the headmistress, they decide to improvise, helped by some of the inhabitants of the elderly home, who enjoy the energy that the youth bring to their home. In the meantime, both Kees and his pupils must face exams.
- Maarten has an incurable matabolic disorder. His friend, Stefan, is the only one who knows. No one at his school, his danceschool, not even his new girlfriend named Roxanne. It's just Stefan. Maarten wants to be a normal boy and does the things every normal boy does, wich is unhealthy and exhausting for him. His parents are divorced, he lives with his mom, Sophie. His father, Frans, is nicer to him than his mom, but still he's concerned, which irritates Maarten. This movie is about a boy who just wants to be a boy and loves dancing. He has a girlfriend, friends, but it's impossible acting normal around them whilst being sick.
- After the death of their best friend, three young women decide to complete her bucket list - only to find one particular entry exceptionally challenging: finding true love.
- A group of soldiers struggle with the consequences of an incident that took place during their mission in Uruzgan, Afghanistan.
- The silent aftermath of a young woman's disaster is broken by her discovery of nature's old rhythms.
- About a Jewish family still struggling with the Holocaust past. Last part of a trilogy, together with "Leedvermaak" (1989) and "Qui vive" (2001).
- A widower invites his children for a family weekend with the announcement that he has news. He is getting married with a 30 years younger woman. The children start the competition for heritage. What is more important: money or family?
- An adopted eight-year-old Peruvian boy wants to look like his typically Dutch father; however, an encounter with a band of Peruvian-Indian street musicians will inspire him to find his roots. Can he become a true Indian in the Netherlands?
- Robbie, a divorced Amsterdam commoner, is meanly denied access to his son Tommi, except for monthly visitation. He grudgingly accepts when a loan shark offers to scrap his debt and throw in some cash for a simple service. Robbie must simply trick Marius, a man he never knew, to the port for a fictitious job. As he gets to know Marius, he starts feeling for the generous sociable type. His conscience wants him to warn the mark he's likely to be beaten up.
- On the brink of committing suicide, factory-woman Marianne meets a strange, silent man in a white suit. She offers him a place to stay, but finds out soon he is badly wanted by the regime. She doesn't care: the uniform, barbed wired world is a much better place with his warm body by her side. Marianne is never ever going to let this happiness being taken away form her.
- Elin is a little too busy with her babysitting job, her first night shift and a new fling. It leads to lapses in concentration.
- Medical student Elin Dekkers starts the hospital phase of her training. Her first patient is not just an hello, but also a goodbye.
- The residents pass trough the psych ward (PAAZ). Only Elin takes even to patient Raymond Brigman, a poet with a violent record, despite Dokter Koenders's warning not to get personal, let alone confident. Dr. Thomas van Loon's wife is now MS-terminal. At the party afterward, Marjolein adds intimate abuse to her constant failing.
- Eline is furious that colleague Hugo Biesterveld, whom she was dumb enough to dump a few weeks ago, is happy again with another, as if she deserved months of miserable mourning. In her rotation she arrives at the pediatrics department, where a self-absorbed, rude professor presumes her field is the only rewarding one. The kids appeal to her as sweet and fragile. The parents prove a pest, especially her former cocky date Anton, who abuse staff, especially her playing without offering any medical clarifications, now his pre-teen son Tibor needs dangerous surgery.
- Elin Dekkers enjoys a day at the seaside with her naughty mate, her straight-forward boyfriend and her hunky fellow resident Hugo, who proves his perfect skills even on the beach. The recapitulate a stressing week on med study rotation in ER. The most pitiful patient is world-class surfer Bertrand, whose leg injury is worse then the most extreme diagnosis could predict.
- The medical trainees have a party while considering the medical staff's responsibility to take the patient's view into account. Elin is first to play patient for hands-on experience, removal of a run-away contraceptive spiral. A very real, tactile aspect is presented to the whole class in the form of two lay patient rights activists who invite them all to learn how to execute rectal examinations with minimal patient stress. A real patient and partner grieve over a still-birth.
- Because she's too weak to resist temptation from her roommate, med student Elin learns the hard way for her and potentially a surgical patient, that preparing for medical duty comes with responsibilities above personal priorities. The girls actually dance and drink in a nightclub before surgery. Still she dares to blame Hugo for her own immature inability to balance love-life and work.
- The residents are performing surgery. Reputed newspaper columnist, Martin Bril, checks in for a routine surgery. Dr. Han Verstraeten insists on allowing him shameless unprecedented VIP treatment 'as good PR'. In fact he writes highly critical columns, every single day. Sanne has a photo-shoot for a car commercial. She convinces the hot model to become the prominent, progressively stripping 'second subject'.
- Elin is embarrassed when alcohol transforms roommate Sabine's charming husband Paul into a shameless flirt. Dr. Thomas van Loon brings in his wife Andrea, an MS patient. Drugs in a 'spacecake' turn a German tourist's wife nymphomaniac. Elin's ex Job is back from Rome.
- The med class prepares for their first vasectomies. Elin is preoccupied with her pristine first pregnancy. Her ma and lover Job advocate young motherhood, presumed pa Hugo and her roommate abortion.
- Elin finds that her training at the hospital and her social life are difficult to combine. Her boyfriend Job feels she has a choice to make.
- Hugo is stuck with a dermatology rotation, reliving his adolescent acne trauma but able to help two patients even without a cure. Meanwhile Elin is in gynecology and looking for a room without adequate budget now Sanne is leaving for America. The new resident, country-girl Aaltje van Dongen, proves too prudish to participate in a mutual shirtless organs localization exercise. Thomas still can't quite believe his wife is no more.
- New resident Mohammed El Amrani proves excellent bedside manner on rotation with Hugo, but it proves rather wasted on a Suriname drug courier. Still the boys bond. Mo's international tennis career impresses especial teachers Han and Tom. Aaltje van Dongen and Elin must handle their share in the moral blame for failing to sterilize equipment.
- Hugo and Mo ponder whether a foxy girl they'll help operate and give a stoma remains a good date, but she turns out to have a steady boyfriend. 17 year-old Stan dies after a motor accident. His utterly neglectful biological mother bickers in the morgue with the respectable adoptive parents who gets to bury or cremate him. Han gives Marjolein a fake surgery lesson so they can have sex, but to her disappointment declares his adultery a one-off. His own teenage daughter is brought in ODd, but neither parents makes time for her. Self-mutilator Aaltje is in denial in psychiatrist Koenders' care.
- New resident Mohammed El Amrani, an ethnic Moroccan, immediately impresses with even better bedside manner then Hugo and puzzles his colleagues given he has an alternative, a lucrative tennis career, yet 'wastes' himself on medicine. Yet helping a hostile Suriname flight passenger who invokes her 6 year old son and pregnancy to refuse drug carrier examination proves a crucible as she swallowed cocaine balloons, there's no baby. Marjolein further convinces professor Verstraeten of her stupidity by irrationally fearing and letting escape the poisonous adder the owner brought along having been bitten. Aagje tops that by managing to reuse an unsterilized rectal probe tube for a healthy patient, who is likely to be thus infected with HIV, albeit it Elin, who fell in for a routinized sick nurse, and the professor are formally responsible. The breast self-check training volunteer pleases especially Hugo, but flirts afterward with van Loon.
- Hugo and his radiology instructor enjoy a hot, semi-discrete affair. Hugo discovers his shy, chess-focused kid brother Maurits, in cancer therapy, is still a virgin. So Hugo tries to encourage an affair with Aaltje, which proves infertile. Adolescent patient Frans Mulder's pa is ready to donate a kidney, but mother objects even before the team points out Dirk isn't the biological father, nor genetically compatible. Tom suffers from visions of his late wife and a mystery web-log about the hospital staff. Han operates on his grumpy former mentor Rudolf Bouwman without respecting his wishes. Rudolf recognizes Elin's ma Geertje as his significant ex.
- Hugo grumbles lover Sabine won't let him kiss in public or smoke near her kids, but is really worried as sick as 'kid' brother Maurits feels because of chemotherapy. When hospital management orders staff to comply with teenage pop idol Valerio's manager to portray his anal fissure surgery on reality TV as 'vocal chords', Elin and Marjolein's cruelty is as boundless as the kid's dutiful PR efforts. Alas the test results are crushing. Bright youngster Simon Aldring and his parents, all Jehova's Witnesses, refuse indispensable blood-transfusion during an urgent life-saving operation.
- Boasting his physical condition, sports-crazy Dr. Han Verstraeten dares Mohammed 'Mo' to a tennis match, provided the young champion, who accepts modestly but amused, plays with a hurt arm in a sling. Even Hugo's charm can't undo a rheumatism-patient's uneasy about Thomas's undesired flirtation. Sabine dumper her ex Paul's annual check-up. Alas the pilot, who complains about migraine, suddenly experiences blindness, hopefully temporary.
- Invited in Aaltje's brother fancy flat's roof hot-tub, Mo assures he isn't gay but refuses to kiss. He discovers her self-mutilation. Tommy (possibly an alias) stumbles in with a gun wound, and pulls his empty revolver refusing police contact or total anesthesia. That also overrules Dr. Han Verstraeten's instructions not to disturb him on his birthday, which his family neglects, but not Marjolein. Under Dutch law staff refuses information or entry to the police, although he shot his ex and her brothers seek revenge. Thomas now has nightmares about his wife's 'mercy killing.
- Fatima 'Faat' was looking forward to presenting ideal son-in-law Jeroen to her family, but he dumps her altogether. Flippant Stella throws her hunky one-night-stand out, still naked, and toys with male nurse Thomas. Nienke, the third hospital nurse-colleague, fusses about a retirement party for old Dr. Schoonoord, but nobody else feels like contributing money or effort. Faat gets rid of all her Jeroen memorabilia attached to a balloon; it gets caught and is delivered to Jeroen, so he brings it to her, but now she hesitates to resume the relationship. At the party Stella takes the keyboard-player to the locker-room to 'compare intimate piercings', but causes a most painful accident. Schoonord's successor, Dr. Huisman, is likely to make his predecessor forgotten in no time.
- Stella finds that her 15 years 'absent' father who is visiting didn't know about her brother Sep's problem; her boss, whose partner is terminal, spills the beans. Fatima is in a wheelchair for a minor injury and milks it. Bumping into gentleman Jan Frederik's sports-car makes them meet. He's a lawyer, she lets him believe she's a med student. It proves a painful experience for him. Nienke hosts a dinner for her ex, Barry, and his bride, corporate psychologist Jolien, who can't handle discovering she's his 'ex'.
- Nienke decides to help Louise with planning Jolien's bachelor party. Stella tries to convince her father to leave her boat. Fatima has spent a drunken night with Jan Frederik and can't remember if she slept with him or not.
- Sep offers a fancy dinner to Stella- and asks Jurriaan too, so she asks his brother Bastiaan, by way of 'penalty'. Actually the gay brothers match instantly. Fatima flaunts her rich fiancé Jan-Frederik, then dumps him without provocation. Her romantic ex Jeroen returns. On the eve of his wedding with Jolien, Barry finally gets Nienke to admits she's in love with him.
- The new doctor Jurriaan Huiskamp still appeals to nurse Fatima, but she dares not approach him. As soon as he starts telling the truth and expects her to work, desk nurse Stella turns against him. So shoves off a rectal rescue on him, but is ordered to assist. Later they learn to appreciate each-other professionally in an emergency.
- The man who was saved by Jurriaan and Stella returns to thank them. Knowing he's terminal he seizes life, by courting her 'no strings'. Fatima still claims to be over Jeroen, but clearly isn't. Nienke ridiculously fails to handle fashion and anger-issues.
- Stella is offered a seat by a preteen boy but is furious when her younger one-night-stand sweetly praises her in bed as 'riper'. Only a compliment from Dr. Jurriaan softens her murderous mood because she feels 'seen as a fossil'. Fatima's granny advises her to taste and enjoy life and lovers, plural- then dies unexpectedly. Nienke has a crush for barman Barry, from her neighborhood, but finds he has a fiancée.
- Stella's big mouth and sick imagination blow her evaluation interview completely, yet doc Jurriaan, whom she abused as 'a treacherous queer', gets her tenure. Fatima clashes with her mother over whether grandma's cremation should be posh or exuberant like she would have wanted. Nienke still wants barman Barry, but accidentally suggests he should propose to his lover Jolien and becomes his courting coach.
- Stella's date, Ron, turns out to be a house-father, but won't give him up, yet the child's image haunts her. Fatima doesn't want to sell grandma's house and asks medium, who refuses to consult grand whether she should move in but analyzes the friends. Nienke's Barry is about to propose to Jolien, but gets cold feet and asks her moral support.