A young country that feels safe is mercilessly attacked from three sides by powerful enemies. Everyone knows it then: it's up or down. In this seven-part history series, the editors of 'Andere Tijden' reconstruct the events leading up to the Disaster Year 1672. A year that entered the history books with the sentence: the people were irrational, the government distraught and the country hopeless. But what exactly happened in that Disaster Year and above all: how could it get so out of hand?