Lex Goudsmit

70 year old Senior makes a fake treasure map for his teenage friend Thomas about a pirate called Brute Berend who suppposed to have hidden a treasure. Senior plans to hide a treasure somewhere in the woods. Unfortunately things don't go as he planned.

The methodical demolition of a sprawling Dutch mansion becomes the core of an ambitious attempt to fuse past and present in glimpses of the life of three generations presented simultaneously. Continuously disrupted by collapsing rooms and falling walls, half a century of turbulent European history is condensed into a thirty- minute impression. There is no looking back, since time never exists as a fixed point; everything is now. (Amos Vogel's Film as a Subversive Art)

The father of Evert, Henk and Dick had three qualities that kept each other in balance: charming clumsiness, professionalism and artistic talent. If he lost himself in artistic dreams, there was always the businessman to bring him back to earth. The three sons each inherited one quality, with nothing to compensate. Cycling to the moon shows decisive periods in the lives of the three brothers who have become artists, policemen and scrap dealers respectively.

Although Frank is always cheating on her, Eva still cannot bring herself to leave him. But Frank objects both when Eva becomes pregnant as well as when she takes a lover of her own.

An international gang has robbed a bank in Amsterdam and manages to escape by boarding the ship named Ecuador. However, while en route, a storm hits, causing the ship to run aground on the Wadden Island Terschelling. The criminals want to escape before they can be arrested. It seems to work, but upon reaching the shore, they encounter the police.

Four short stories by the same writer but interpreted by four different directors. A confirmed bachelor bumps into his secretary after work. An old man just wants to be left alone at Christmas time. A former sailor yearns to get back to the sea, away from his clarinet playing wife. A shopkeeper in a rowboat gets into an argument with a postman on a bicycle.