Wouke van Scherrenburg, who for many years was a familiar sight in and around the Binnenhof as a political reporter, takes you into the lives of successively Jacoba van Beieren, Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, the De Witt brothers, Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck, Johan Rudolph Thorbecke, Pieter Jelles. Troelstra and Pim Fortuyn. Lives marked by power struggles and personal tragedy. Each episode also shows how a crucial event in the life of the main character is dramatized by screenwriter and director Niek Barendsen and actors such as Pierre Bokma, Lies Visschedijk, Minne Koole, Gijs Scholten van Aschat and others.