Stephan Evenblij

Fat adolescent Dik Trom enjoys growing up in a hedonistic town devoted to food and fun. When a restaurant chain offers his father the life-long-dreamed opportunity to run his own, the Trom family moves. Their new home town Dunhoven is however inhabited by health freaks who prefer only fitness to dietary sobriety.

Marc is an obsessive Star Wars collector; his marriage has failed because of it. On eBay he finds an ad for the ultimate collector's item: The Bobafett Rocketeer, for a couple of thousand euros. Marc's furious attempts to scrape together enough cash culminate in him becoming an organ donor.

The somewhat naïve teenager Alex Meulenaers leaves his hometown, to go study economics in Amsterdam. He is the first of his family to leave Limburg. However, faith has something else in store for him. The movie shows us how Alex sees Amsterdam: sometimes threathening, sometimes absurd and always with wonder.

Former Amsterdam police detective Floris Wolfs has been transferred to the police department of the south-Dutch country town Maastricht. His metropolitan experience nicely complements the local expertise of his new country colleagues, who know the folks. Slowly he fits in, while solving countless crimes together with his female partner Eva van Dongen.

Voetbalvrouwen is a Dutch dramedy favourably compared to Footballers' Wives. Three seasons have been taped since 2006; the first was shown in 2007 on the demissionary channel Tien, the second and third on RTL.