The Obsessed One

A group of young South American rebels attempt to incite a revolution and bring forth a better world. This is reportedly the first Surinamese feature length film.

Reshna, a student in the Netherlands, visits her sick father in Suriname. When her family tells her what made her father ill and that it has to do with his past on plantation Mariënburg, she sets out to investigate. She finds out more and more and through flashbacks, the 1902 uprising is shown. Poor Hindustani and Javanese farmers were put to work on the plantation but were very poorly paid, and after a new Scottish director took office for the NHM (Dutch Trading Company) who abused and intimidated the farmers' wives, a decision to strike was made in July 1902. After the society used violence that left dozens dead, rebellion broke out.

Life story of an aged Hindustan woman, now living in Holland, who was 'taken' from British India in 1910 as a contract labourer on the plantations of Surinam.