'How my decent parents ended up in jail' is about Daniël and Kim Winkelman who form a perfect family with their adolescents Lizzy and Max and their almost-teenager Lou. Until Daniel announces that he wants a divorce. The news hits like a bomb. Why did he never say anything? Does he have another? Kim tries desperately to save her marriage, but it's too late for Daniel. The mutual accusations become more and more false and so it is possible that Daniel and Kim end up in a vulgar fighting divorce, where they completely lose sight of their children. Lizzy, Max and Lou do everything they can to stop their parents' struggle. Because when parents become children, children can be nothing but the adults.