Melancholy Tales

Directed by Ernie Damen, Bas van der Lecq, Guido Pieters and Nouchka van Brakel

With Henny Alma, Fien Berghegge, Jon Bluming, Jan Dahmen and Menno Dijkstra

A series of four stories written by the Dutch writer Heere Heeresma, interpreted by four different directors. A confirmed bachelor bumps into his secretary after work. An old man just wants to be left alone at Christmas time. A former sailor yearns to get back to the sea, away from his clarinet playing wife. A shopkeeper in a rowboat gets into an argument with a postman on a bicycle.