Bij Ons in de Jordaan is set in the 1950s and tells the life story of Johnny Jordaan, from his early years to his fame as the Netherlands' greatest folk singer. Great fellow artists such as Wim Sonneveld and Willy Alberti also pass by in the life of Jordaan. Then Johnny discovers that he harbors homosexual feelings, something that was still a big taboo in the mid-1950s. In a few years' time, partly due to the grief for his deceased mother and two brain hemorrhages, he has become a precocious, sickly man. But then he is approached for a performance during a big party in the Jordaan.