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- A poor 11-year-old schoolboy with a heart of gold grows up in 1930s Amsterdam.
- David Storm learned 10 years ago that he has MS. For this reason and without telling her he leaves his girlfriend, Linda. Now he lives alone and only his brother, Anton, has much contact with him. David has all the time in the world to wallow in self-pity. Until the day that Linda suddenly reappears to tell him that he has a son, Robert. While still a climber in the Himalayas, David learned the saying "The mountain is hard but the butterfly tips up the cat" from Sherpas. David begins to understand this saying with the return of Linda and the consequences of his new-found fatherhood.
- Victim of the breakdown in trust and communication between his estranged parents 12 year old Sem de Rijn has not seen his father for 6 months when he arrives at his school one afternoon and offers the boy a holiday. They run away together driving through Holland and Belgium, camping out and generally having the kinds of adventures a boy dreams of until pursued by the police and torn between his love for his mother and his father, Sem and his father return to face the music.
- Steven lives with his mother who works at the University. He is proud of her and uses medical knowledge she has given him to present a talk to his class. A schoolfriend shatters his illusions however by telling him that his mother performs experiments upon live animals. With his friend Steven breaks into the laboratory and releases hundreds of animals. One, a dog, is valuable. His mother is distraught but confesses her feelings of pride in her son for his convictions. Steven finds the dog and runs away to a sanctuary up in the hills that his absent father had shown him. Together, his parents search for the fugitives.
- Young Barend is worried about the safety of the sailing vessel he is on. The owner is an unscrupulous and stingy man who skimps on repairs and Barend becomes aware of this. Inevitably there is drama and tragedy. The film is set in an early 20th century Dutch fishing village with local period costume and colour.
- Mees has a problem. By accident he took his best friend's pocket knife home with him. Unfortunately he is too late to return it as the next day Tim moves house. All that Mees knows is that Tim has gone to Flevoland. His parents are tied up in their own lives and have no room for little Mees' problems. His mother is a world-famous singer and it seems Mees sees her more on TV than in real life. His father is under a lot of pressure acting as a housekeeper and as secretary for his popular wife. So little Mees must search alone for his friend.....