De Stamhouder plot
Series based on the autobiographical work of Alexander Münninghoff. At the end of the sixties, Münninghoff falls head over heels for the self-assured, free-spirited Ellen. When, after a beautiful night of love, he confesses that his father Frans was an SS man during the war, Ellen reacts dismissively; after all, her family suffered greatly during the war. She disappears from Alexander's life for a month, and then returns to him; she is pregnant. Both want to keep the child and decide to get married; but on Ellen's condition that Alexander puts an end to his dark family past; then he finds out that he knows little about his parents and grandfather.