Mieke Bos

Martha overhears Bernard and John talking about blackmail. Jacob has come up with a plan that includes a mysterious key. Brothers Bobby and Arnold, eternal rivals, both fancy Martha, but also have a soft spot for Leonie. The latter gets tasked to learn more about Jacob's plan. A dead man is discovered lying in Bernard's office late at night by somebody else searching the premises. When the main conspirators all gather at the Zevenhuis villa, John declines to cooperate...

A nearly 30 minute long conversation in a living room party. Unlike in a regular TV play the jabber conversation can hardly be understood. Sometimes a line or two can be picked up. There's an intermezzo when Schippers alias Jacques Plafond comes to play one of his 'modern' piano pieces, to the disgust of the party's guests, whose chattering in the end isn't far removed from the piano play.

As years pass, the Craets-Goldeweyn family must cope with the disappearance of the familiar and the inescapable new that imposes itself.