In the miniseries Van Vlees en Bloed the butcher family Vangenechten takes center stage. Business is going well in the butcher's shop until the only son of the butcher's couple suddenly shows up at the door after a long absence. He doesn't want to say anything about where he's been lately. He wants to come back to live at home and, moreover, he wants to work in the butcher's shop. His mother and grandmother want nothing more than to give the prodigal son a new chance, but for his father, André Vangenechten, the reconciliation is by no means obvious. Rudy's return sets off a chain reaction of events that leaves no one spared.