Huub Stapel travels with writer Eva Vriend to the place where it all began: the Andijk test polder. In the Wieringermeerpolder he meets the sons of two polder pioneers who came with their parents full of expectation at the beginning of the last century to colonize the new land.
The story of Dutch commando Marco Kroon, who, after becoming the first recipient of his country's highest military award in over five decades, finds himself in the crosshairs of the law for alleged drugs and weapons violations.
In Langs de IJssel, Huub Stapel follows the IJssel, the most idiosyncratic river in our country. It does not flow from East to West like other rivers, but towards the North. Huub investigates the role this river plays in the landscape, its history and the lives of the people who live on its banks.
A down-on-his-luck Rotterdam dock worker struggles to get his financials and family life back on track.
