Jakob Yzermans is an American salesman looking for his roots in Rotterdam. He thinks his father (Hendrik Yzermans) has left Holland with the money he took from his collegues. Jakob is trying to get the money together to repay the money. While doing so he encounters more and more problems.
Adolescent school friends Julie and Betz have a lot of things in common, like sharing an interest in sex and cigarettes and not paying attention in class. The latter much to the chagrin of history teacher Herman, who likes to get back at Julie by publicly taking the piss out of her. One day Julie gets really fed up and in an instant decides to follow Herman to his house. Spying on him from the bushes she witnesses something quite unimaginable.
