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Guus and Lil have everything their hearts desire: a successful shop where they sell the glass lamps that they make themselves, two wonderful sons, a nice house and each other. And not just each other because Guus and Lil have agreed that they are free to date other people if they want to. It

Colette and her partner Naomi want to have children and are very happy when their good friend Boaz is willing to donate sperm for this purpose. Naomi is totally prepared for this next step in her life and can

Dwayne and Marisa are happy with their two little girls. Still, Dwayne finds it difficult to allow himself to fully commit himself emotionally to his present family situation. This becomes painfully obvious when Dwayne refuses to celebrate his birthday. Years before, he had lost his previous wife and his two young sons when hurricane Irma hit St Maarten during their stay there. This enormous grief still eats away at him and at the same time he finds it hard to show his vulnerability as a loving father. Today he has reached the point at which the situation has become untenable and so Dwayne must open up and tell his young daughters that they once had two half-brothers.

Benjamin comes home to celebrate Christmas with his father Chris and his two older brothers, Alex and Marius. It

Katja and Simon have known each other since they were students and have found each other in their sharp observations of the world and in their remorseless, no-prisoners-taken, sense of humor. Katja became a lawyer and Simon a journalist. Not much of that razor-sharp edge survived after Simon was left both partially paralyzed and suffering from aphasia due to a case of medical malpractice. As Simon struggles to regain control of his body and his speech, Katja wages battles against the parties responsible for their situation and against their noisy and boisterous neighbors. They fail to realize that they are gradually losing each other. Then Simon risks it all by proposing this: if he is unable to provide her with the intimacy that she needs, then perhaps she should look for it in someone else.

While all her friends are working on their relationships and starting families, pole-dance instructor Roos resolutely remains single: love has disappointed her too many times to ever give another man the chance of capturing her heart. Until she sees a note posted on the information board in her local supermarket, written by someone who has apparently spotted her in the park and is looking to her. Who is this creep? Why doesn