Slapstick by the director of The Taste of Water also a film within a film. Boy, otherwise known as the shy actor Pim, runs a financially unsuccessful service station somewhere in the desert. His life is severely disrupted when he gets a professional competitor. The film is a homage to the silent film hero Buster Keaton.

Oh Boy!

A picture of the history of the Dutch East Indies in the period 1939-1949. Adventurer Theo Staats leaves for the Dutch East Indies for superficial reasons, but along the way he learns to see the bitter reality of colonialism.

Tropic of Emerald

Frans Laarmans temporarily abandons his job as an office worker to become a salesman for a big cheese company.