Andrew Vandaele

World War II: Resistance fighters accept a suicide mission to deliver a stolen Nazi submarine carrying atomic uranium. Hunted by Hitler’s army, the crew must outwit the German Navy to bring the cargo safely to America.

In the spring of 1979, a banker is kidnapped in broad daylight. His kidnappers demand a ransom in exchange for his release. But shortly after the ransom is delivered, both the banker and his kidnappers disappear without a trace. There is no resolution to this mysterious case, and the file disappears into the archives. Until it is dug up again in 2017 by a young reporter from KRO's Brandpunt.

Fifteen-year-old Cobain tries to get his pregnant mother Mia to quit her self-destructive lifestyle. When she refuses to clean up her act, Cobain takes over.

Ellen Bouché travels to Antwerp to face a terrible truth: Her daughter Sarah lies in the morgue, dead from a fatal drug cocktail of crystal meth and heroin. The stunned mother is assisted by her friend Maggie, whom Ellen knows from her student days in the Belgian port city. A few hours after seeing Sarah's body, Ellen receives an unimaginable text message in the middle of the night: it is an emergency call from her daughter, which arrived two days after the time of death! Ellen refuses to believe the obvious explanation that it is just an unusual delay in transmission. Her maternal instinct immediately kicks in. In fact, something unimaginable seems to be going on, because the student's body has suddenly disappeared and evidence of a connection to a secret voodoo cult is found in her apartment.

'Familie' is the longest running Belgian soap opera. The Van den Bossches originally had an electronics company, later a holding company that included a clothing chain and a sandwich shop. In the meantime, we closely follow the personal lives of the Van den Bossches and their entourage. Grandma Anna and all her children and grandchildren have been through a lot over time and it doesn't look like their lives will become calmer any time soon.