Domien De Gruyter

Professeur de linguistique dans une petite ville de Flandre, Mathias mène une vie sans histoire. Anne, sa maîtresse, est décoratrice de théâtre. Un soir, Mathias prend le train pour aller donner une conférence dans une autre ville. Anne le rejoint. Pendant le voyage, Mathias s’endort en basculant dans un univers inconnu. Lorsqu’il se réveille, Anne a disparu...

This historical costume drama is a mini-series on the life of Flemish first-rate Baroque painter Pieter Pauwel Rubens (1577-1640), whose artistic success throughout Europe not only made him a fortune allowing him to stock his Antwerp residence ('Rubenshuis' in Dutch) and a castle at Elewijt, in the countryside nearer Brussels, with numerous fashionable treasures, but also became an ennobled diplomat for the Spanish Hapsburg rulers of the Southern Low Countries (now Belgium), who often traveled, for painting commissions and/or diplomatic missions, to and worked in Italy, France, Spain, all Catholic powers, as well as protestant England and the United Provinces (mainly Holland), also allowing him to meet other prominent contemporaries such as artists. It further covers his marriages to Isabella Brandt and Hélène Fourment.

World War II drama about covert organisation Lifeline helping allied airmen escape after being shot down in occupied Europe, working with the Resistance and hiding from the Gestapo.