Eline Havenaar

Narrated by Rotterdam's city poet Dean Bowen with his memorial poem 'always a kind of onward' the viewer is challenged to relive the bombing of the city of Rotterdam on the 14th of May 1940. However, this time, in the context of the present. In a city rebuilt, a heedless community moves forward. The clock hits five 'o clock. Leftover wage slaves drip homewards; an old couple can't even remember each other's existence and a young pregnant woman struggles to find her way in an overcrowded subway.

Merel, a single midwife, is done with men, but her biological clock is ticking inexorably. And yes, she gets pregnant. However, the whole family suddenly seems pregnant. Her 60-plus father Piet has just become father again with his young partner and her 23-year-old niece Eva is also expecting. Annet, Merel's older sister, who suffers from the empty nest syndrome, has a husband Theo who only wants to travel because he think is to young to become a grandfather.

When a rich family suddenly finds themselves broke, they are forced to leave their luxurious lives and start over again in a new neighborhood and make unlikely friends with their new neighbors.

In Under the Naked Sky we follow ten-year-old Elvie, who lives with her mother on a camping site run by her grandfather. Elvie's mother is mentally impaired, having the mind and manners of a four-year-old.