Double Life

A local Belgian potato farmer loses all his money and tries to earn it back by growing cannabis.

Belgium, the early 1980s. Jan Laureys wants to see the world and enjoy life, but reluctantly becomes a gendarme. His father, himself an officer in the gendarme, wants it that way. When Jan hears about the CDI, a new unit that will tackle drug criminals using American methods, he immediately applies. The CDI doesn't wear uniforms, so he can continue to parade around the barracks courtyard in his fashionable outfits. And so Jan meets Bob, an American DEA agent who comes to train the Belgian elite police force in American police techniques. After a major screw-up, the CDI loses a lot of money from the gendarme. To save face, they decide, on Bob's advice, to earn the money back by selling drugs themselves. As always, everything goes well... until it goes wrong. Especially for Jan.

Following a major catastrophe, a new society, Arcadia, is born. Resources have become scarce and a point system, known as the Citizen Score, is introduced. It determines what you can and may do and what a citizen is entitled to.

'BOHO' follows the ups and downs of Kima, her sister Nawal and their friend Alex. Three thirty-somethings from Borgerhout, each at a crossroads in their lives, identity and ambitions. The chaotic creative Kima loses her job and decides to do everything she can to make a musical film. Her sister Nawal becomes increasingly absorbed in her desire to have children, which puts her marriage under pressure. And at the same time, Alex begins to realise that she must finally tell her father, who lives in Ghana, the truth about her work. Despite their personal challenges, the three women continue to support each other through their weekly ritual full of humour and sisterhood.