Axel is Dutch Surinamese, but after 20 years of living in the Netherlands he has become 100% Dutch. He has married a Dutch girl, Victoria, and has never been back. When his free-spirited mother Gladys summons the family to her guesthouse in Surinam for Christmas and an important announcement, Axel, his wife and her sister Mirna reluctantly make the journey. They have barely arrived when the situation gets completely out of hand, with his brother Virgil winding him up and his daughter Wonnie, who is doing an internship in Paramaribo, admitting that she is pregnant...

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A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patient's near death experiences.

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During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessaril...

Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. T...

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In 1972, disenchanted about the dreary conventions of English life, 25-year-old Julia heads for Moro...

Stephen, an international trader, tracks down his ex-wife Patricia in some Amazonian backwater. He n...

When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of conv...

For ten years, engineer Bill Markham has searched tirelessly for his son Tommy who disappeared from ...