Andrea Domburg

When his son joins the labour movement, the weather-beaten, work-worn farmer Van Paemel is driven off his land by the local landowner and is forced to move into an impoverished hovel. Another son is wounded in a hunting accident and his daughter is made pregnant by one of the landowner's offsprings. (FlandersImage.be)

The young girl Keetje moves to Amsterdam in 1881 with her impoverished family, and is led into prostitution in order to survive. In the process she sees the corrupting influence of money. (imdb)

After a fight the brass band in a small village splits up into two separate bands. They both want to win a contest and will do anything to prevent the other band from winning it. (imdb)

During World War II in the Netherlands, resistance-leader Arie is shot by the Dutch SS-man Niels. Arie's comrades pledge to avenge his death. 35 years later one of them, Ab, is confronted with Niels again. He decides to round up his old friends to kill him. He finds out though, that they think this is useless or are not capable of doing so anymore. Only the former communist Gerben has not forgotten his pledge and is talked into joining the execution. (IMDb)

A captive German, engaged on the Russian satellite program, holds the secret of Sputnik's beep signals. He escapes into the Free World where he is kidnapped by agents who want to "sell" him to the highest bidder. (imdb)

Jenny gets pregnant, but her lover doesn't want to become a father yet.

The film outlines the passionate but also dangerous relationship between the actress Alison and the glamor crook Quinten. Love goes so far as to provide Alison with an alibi for her lover when he is suspected of murdering his father. But Quinten also goes through fire for her and goes after her manager when it turns out that he has run off with her wages. However, this confrontation turns out to be fatal for Quinten, on the eve of the premiere of Alison's show.

This Dutch drama series is called after an agro-industrial factory, the main employer in a rural part of the Netherlands, and the interlocking private and professional lives of people and families involved in it: workers, supplying farmers under contract, the owners, and the ambitious new CEO.