Reportage about construction work in the port of Tanjung Priok near Batavia (Jakarta) in the Dutch-Indies (Indonesia).
Mijntje and Trijntje, two girls from Zealand, go to Zandvoort in the tram. On the tram they are seen by two young men who start flirting with them. Arriving at the beach, the girls decide to go swimmi...
Jan Vogel, foreman at the Van Haaften pottery, is busy with a new process for painting porcelain, but so far his experiments have failed. His employer, also in financial difficulties, cannot give him ...
Melodrama about a stolen identity. The daughter of a man who has stolen the identity of the deceased Baron Van Walden marries to school teacher Ulbo Garvema, who turns out to be the son of the baron.
At Castle "De Werve", debt-ridden Colonel von Zwenken's daughter and her husband John Mordaunt await the birth of a child. Mordaunt's aunt has promised that if it is a son named after her late husband...
Three sailors, known in the working-class quarter De Jordaan as Dries De Dolle (Crazy Dries), Manus De Schele (Cross-eyed Manus) and Toon De Blauwe (Blue Toon), return to Amsterdam. Dries will see his...
Willem, an old fisherman, finds a pocket-book on the sands. He is obliged to share half of its contents with Frits, one of his comrades, who sets out on a voyage the following day. The fisherman gives...
When Dora, the eldest daughter of a blind, widowed and orthodox Jew, falls in love with a doctor who is a Christian, she is disowned by her father and driven out of the house. As it was Dora whose wor...