Obsessions

A student is working part-time on a canal boat in Amsterdam and a young director wants to make a film about her.

A group of Amsterdam schoolchildren travel through the Netherlands in a wildly painted van. The aim of their journey is to preach rebellion against the education system. With rather vague arguments, they try to persuade other students to go on strike. When this seems to work, the teachers set up the 'Association of Concerned Teachers'. This association will try to sabotage the bus in every possible way. The result is a boomerang effect...

D.C. has been abandoned by his girlfriend Nola, wants to go to Hollywood and participates in 'chicken races' out of desperation and lack of money; a perilous event in which one travels a certain distance on the road by car without stopping.

Composer Adam has to compose a European anthem while a tax inspector gets in his way.

After attending a conference in Calcutta, Colombian optometrist Dr. Ignacio Cosso makes a stopover in Amsterdam on his way back to his home country. Here, he allows himself to be taken through the city by bicycle rickshaw by a seductive woman. During his journey through the city, he encounters beautiful and often naked women, whom he frequently photographs. In this way, he manages to win over an attractive stripper.

The romantic pharmacist Max is in a relationship with Willie and also has a platonic relationship with Laura. The artist Henk is the fourth player in this game of quartets. The foursome is comically torn between the urge for independence and the desire for a partner. Jealousy and relationship anxiety cause the relationships to constantly change, resulting in continuous relocations. In between, there is the minor drama involving Bonita: Max has a passion for pigeons. Together with the melancholic pigeon fancier Gisbers, he is the owner of the cock pigeon Bonita, who never wins any prizes...

Joop tries to tell his friend Loes that he loves her but is repeatedly interrupted.

Paul has a full-time lover, an older English woman whose common sense and down-to-earth qualities more than compensate for her relative lack of passion. After all, he is surrounded by women clamoring for time with him in bed. So are all the other men in the story. When one of his sons dies suddenly during an operation, Paul is devastated and cannot make out what has gone wrong in his life. None of his current crop of friends has any insight to offer. Some of these questions become clearer when his sister, with whom he is almost unnaturally close, comes to visit.

A Dutch pilot with a real passion for flying risks everything to keep his plane in the air.

Nervous poet wrestles with everyday utensils. His clumsy movements also cause trouble in bed.

Back in his native Suriname to see his dying mother, an Afro-Surinamese student from the Netherlands’ former colony finds himself torn between his Amsterdam-based life with his white Dutch girlfriend and a future in his newly independent homeland when he falls for a local Hindostani nurse.

A wealthy French couple unable to bear children but determined to start a family agree to use an anonymous surrogate . Upon seeking a professional opinion on the matter, the couple is advised to seek out an anonymous surrogate. Though the procedure is a success, Jean-Paul becomes entirely consumed in his quest to discover the identity of the young woman (Willeke van Ammelrooy) who is currently carrying his child. Upon coming face to face with the ravishing young beauty, Jean-Paul initiates a torrid affair that will profoundly affect the lives of all involved.

Cornelis van Doorn is the CEO of VD, a meat factory as well as a developer of contraceptives. Cornelis is the patriarch of the Van Doorn family: a decadent bunch of loose morals who only lust for money and power. When the man is thinking about retiring, he has to find the right heir to take over the family business.

Alicia, a bored housewife, leaves her husband and children in search of adventure.

The story of a man who goes out looking for hamburgers, while he has a beautiful steak at home. Frank and Eva can't live together, but can't live without each other either. Frank has sex with every woman he can get, while Eva wants to start a family.

25-year-old Michael has been released from prison after a five-year sentence. He moves into a big apartment block, filled with young women who gladly have sex with him.