Eenmaal Geslagen, Nooit Meer Bewogen plot
1950: A fatherless family lives in a terrifyingly large house somewhere in Amsterdam South. The family consists of mother Zijdeveld, her 35-year-old son Charles and daughter Regina two years younger. Then there's the live-in cousin with writing ambitions, Jozef. The relationship between mother Zijdeveld and Charles is not only special, but also very oppressive and artificial. Caught in a world of books and literary quotes, Mother Zijdeveld doesn't allow anyone to come between her and Charles. But then Charles announces that he wants to marry Mary, the murdered pharmacist widow...