Zonnig Madeira plot
Marjoleine Boonstra follows residents of the Akropolis nursing home, where a memorial museum is housed in the basement. There are display cases full of teapots and biscuit tins, cupboards with linen and crockery, but also a fully equipped baby room, kitchen, laundry room or shed. Here the elderly can shuffle through the rooms with their walking frames and admire attributes from their youth. The simple objects of the past offer support and comfort in the last phase of their lives. Director Hans Becker, together with his sister initiator of the museum, sees it as his mission to provide the elderly with so-called 'conversation pieces'. He calls it a pleasure museum. A place 'where everyone can chatter about their own things.' He even had a panorama of a beach scene painted on one of the walls. With real sand and real shells and an old wicker beach chair in front of it. On this 'beach' Boonstra asks the residents about their dreams, their greatest love, their best and worst moments.