De Kleine Wereld van Machteld Cossee plot
When Machteld was eighteen, she learned that she was suffering from a disease that would eventually make her both deaf and blind. Machteld, a young woman, married and mother. She wonders: who am I and what do I matter? Everyone is silent about the sword of Damocles hanging over her head. In the five years that follow, her second child is born and tensions arise in her relationship. As girlfriends make careers and live dynamic lives, Machteld's world becomes quieter, darker and smaller.