 During the nineteen twenties, a rich American named Ben, returns to the place he was born, a small village in the northern part of the Netherlands. With him travels his stepdaughter, Angela, who is pregnant. Once arrived in the village Ben meets his old love who is now married. They start a, rather sneaky, relation because it seems that Ben and Angela are also having an affair. At the same time the son of Bens mistress, Harm Wouter Dijkstra, returns from the University were he failed his first year. Because of the openhearted behaviour of Angela, rumours start to spread around the village. Once she is even sexually assaulted by a farmer. Harm and Angela decide to leave the narrow-mindedness of the village and its inhabitants. During their quest they are constantly followed by the villagers. Finally, they are captured and beaten to death.