Damien Hope

11 mars 2002. John R., chauffeur d'autobus de 59 ans, prend en otage le personnel de la Tour Rembrandt à Amsterdam. L'événement survenant exactement six mois après les attentats du 11 septembre aux États-Unis, provoque la panique dans la police et auprès des autorités. John affirme que certains programmes télévisuels contiennent des messages subliminaux dans le but de manipuler le cerveau humain. Considéré comme fou et incompris par son entourage, il mène une lutte sans merci contre les télévisions et contre tout autres aspects de la technologie moderne...

Every morning six people who live in the same street are taking the bus into town. Thanks to their own routine they survive each day, until one of them meets death.

Den Helder, just another town somewhere in the North of Holland. But today is not a day like all the others for Maarten and Emiel, the two sons of an ordinary family. Maarten has joined the Marines and is about to leave for Lebanon for a six-month mission. On the other hand, this is the very day when his brother Emiel is released from prison.

A story about the 14 year old Heleen who makes the transition of child to adult with pain and effort in the wild 70s. While her parents going to divorce she is exploring the world of sex, drugs and love on her own.

One warm summer night, in a working-class area of a big city, a group of teenagers sits on a square. Jill, a teen girl, undergoes her first sexual experience as an everyday banality.

Renate is left behind in a department store after breaking up with her boyfriend there.

Wander is working as an engine operator on a cargo-ship. When he takes a coffee-break, a woman appears in a talkshow on TV. In an instant, Wander recognizes her to be his long lost girl-friend Zelda from childhood days some 20 years ago. In these days, Wander used to live in a boarding-school. From his room window, he can see the house on the opposite river bank where Zelda lives. She's a really adorable young beauty, but she's less affected than one should think, and so Wander gets his chance. They are having a good time until one day when Wander finds Zelda's father in the school kitchen making love to the kitchen maid. Things turn out bad for most of the characters involved, but there's an open end.

After losing sight of each other for 25 years, the paths of three childhood friends cross paths. It concerns successful conductor Victor Slingeland, successful writer Sander Vastenhout and general practitioner Bert Duprez. Slingeland enjoys a reputation as a womanizer. This intrigues Vastenhout who, as is often the case with authors, is without inspiration. Vastenhout sees the unraveling of Slingeland's complex personality as possible new material for a novel. With the help of Dr. Duprez, Vastenhout tries to find out about Slingeland's secret by imitating his behavior and thus challenging him.

Fernando considers himself an alien who may die when someone looks him in the eye. An innocent expression like 'I saw you watching, you know' is lethal now. A metaphor for the vulnerability of a boy in relation to the girl he is in love with.

When teen Eva falls for a stranger who then helps abduct her, it's up to her mild-mannered sweetheart, Mees, to find and rescue her.

Former Amsterdam police detective Floris Wolfs has been transferred to the police department of the south-Dutch country town Maastricht. His metropolitan experience nicely complements the local expertise of his new country colleagues, who know the folks. Slowly he fits in, while solving countless crimes together with his female partner Eva van Dongen.