1888: a luthier, Vedder, has to step aside when his home, opposite the recently completed Central Station in Amsterdam, must yield for the planned Victoria Hotel. His cousin Anijs, pharmacist in the Northern provinces of the Netherlands, has gotten into a fix after illegal medical practices, and is looking for a way out. For himself and his wife Martha, but also for a colony of poor peat cutters whom he promises a future in the United States. Committed - or is it pride? - the two of them think up a scheme from which they all will fully benefit. With tragic consequences.
Elenco: Gijs Scholten van Aschat , Jacob Derwig , Rifka Lodeizen , Zeb Troostwijk , Juda Goslinga , Elisabeth Hesemans , Joosje Duk , Sander van Amsterdam , Houk van Warmerdam , Thomas Cammaert , Leon Voorberg , John Leddy , Tobias Kersloot , Peter Blankenstein .