Hotel Heimwee plot
Director's debut by actor Porgy Franssen about 45-year-old Max (played by Franssen himself) who runs a charming hotel in Buisson, southern France. Fré, a Dutch woman who lives nearby, helps him with this and now and then they share the bed. Max is a daydreamer, in his mind he talks non-stop to his lost great love Charlotte, a prima ballerina with whom he had a passionate relationship twenty years ago. Although Fré and Max have fun together, he continues to cherish an unfulfilled longing for that one woman who, he thinks, can make his life perfect. The arrival of Max's cheeky, flirtatious niece Anne who makes it with the jack of all trades Dion reinforces his longing for the past. On the stairs, in the microwave, he sees visions of his dancer everywhere. Fré sees Max's absence with sorrow and decides that it can no longer be like this. She writes an anonymous postcard to Charlotte and draws her attention to Max Smeets' Hotel Heimwee.