Tiemen van Haver

A group of teenager friends tries to reunite by having a barbecue, one year after the loss of their friend. The atmosphere is very tense because one of them brings a Japanese exchange student. The Japanese girl notices how everyone is confronted with the past and how their friendship suffers from it.

Ampersand lives in a world where you have to pay to speak. Rich people have a lot to say while the poor can't say anything. Ampersand is in love with Cedille but can't tell her because het can't buy the words.

A workaholic businessman provides well for his son San, but the emotional neglect since his mother died a few years ago grimly affects the shy knave. In San's heroic daydreams, a cool father leads him into modern Quichote exploits, yet even those tend to turn sour. Slipping, like his grades, into rebellion and school incidents, San, who just went on a fugue, becomes the prime suspect after a schoolgirl turned novice drug slut has been beaten into a coma. The clueless police and irresponsible school staff will probably blame San. Her friend, a regular drug harlot, is the worried-sick father's only lead to find San and the truth, and shamelessly exploits that.

The story of five underdogs, meeting by chance during a quiz in a local pub. They get the idea of taking part in the "Superprestige", the most important quiz. The selection procedure turns out to be difficult, requiring more than just knowledge. There's even more at stake than the five had in mind. "Quiz Me Quick" follows their successes as well as their failures