At the end of WWII the Dutch resistance kills a German officer in front of the house of a Dutch family. Years after the war the young boy who witnessed the killing runs into the members of the resistance who committed the killing.
Literary adaptation: an artist returns to the stifling atmosphere of the small Dutch village where he grew up, a place marked by morbidity, suppression of emotion, Calvinist hypocrisy and a suffocating patriarchy.
