In the occupied Netherlands near the end of WWII, a young teenager, Jeroen Boman (Maarten Smit) is sent to the Dutch countryside to avoid the war in Amsterdam. While living with his adopted family, Jeroen meets and becomes friends with a Canadian soldier named Walt Cook, who is stationed at the same town he is staying at. Joroen and Walt spend a lot of time playing around and eventually a romantic relationship develops between them. The boy’s sexual curiosity leads him to have a sexual experience with Walt, an encounter that is shown with some vague detail but without actually showing any nudity, even though sexual intimacy between the two of them is implied. Overall, the movie handles this difficult subject with an elegant style and feeling, without having the adult-child relationship overwhelm the viewer and thus allowing the movie to be seen as just a wartime relationship between two people that marks an important time in a young boy’s life.
as Jeroen Boman (young)
as Jeroen Boman (adult)
as Walt Cook
as Hait
as Mem
as Jan
as Henk
as Bonden
as Elly
as Gertie
as Renske
as Laura
as Chuck
as Ventriloquist
as Winslow
as Jeroen's Mother
as Supervisor
as Pastor
as Schoolmaster
as Ballet Dancer
as Ballet Dancer
as Ballet Dancer
as Ballet Dancer
as Ballet Dancer
as Ballet Dancer
as Ballet Dancer
