Toilsome verbal communication, the loss of a loved one and a child being forgotten.

By handling difficult events in a down-to-earth and distant manner, it is easy to hide the things that touch you in those events.

Meeting for instance a loved one or a child can make those hidden feelings re-emerge. That is usually the moment when running away no longer makes sense.

I have wanted the story to be very 'Dutch' and 'Calvinistic', without implying a direct judgement and without doubting its universal character.

What I did want to show was a certain way of acting, the way I sense it in places surrounding me, of which I sincerely think that they can sometimes cause a lot of harm, probably without us being aware of it.