Gilles Biesheuvel

Bijlmer Odyssey is a romantic comedy about two young lovers who were made for each other. Lost and separated from each other in a labyrinth of high-rise flats, they become entangled in comical adventures and meet colourful locals who ultimately help them find each other again. With a nod to the classical Odyssey of Homer, this heart-warming, big-city comedy of errors provides an unusual and enchanting view of the Bijlmer, a low-income estate district on the outskirts of Amsterdam.

The harried manager of a rundown RV park gets pulled into chaos after a troubled former child star arrives with problems in tow.

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.

Astrid Holleeder works towards the moment when she definitively betrays her brother to Justice. Flashbacks make it clear what childhood she and her brother have wrestled themselves with and how painful, but necessary, her betrayal is.

15-year-old Zakaria will face the toughest decisions of his life as he deals with juvenile detention, a new foster family and the temptations of organised crime. After a failed rescue attempt by Muis, the problems of 15-year-old Komtgoed are growing rapidly. A fight in the street escalates and he ends up in the clutches of the judicial system. Juvenile detention and a foster family follow. As his problems increase, there seems to be only one way to make something of his life.