A piece of news, delivered by two officers in a police car, changes the lives of a family forever. As the journey to track down the next of kin progresses, the vehicle becomes more and more crowded with family members, picked up from home, work, the hairdressers. As they sit in the backseat, alone with their thoughts, what they thought they knew about life, about relationships, has been violently altered.

Martje is the manager of a successful laundry service, but in her personal life she struggles with her self-image after the amputation of one of her breasts. After she is humiliated when Loe, one of her employees, is startled by the discovery of her prosthesis during foreplay, she imprisons him in the laundry plant. As Loe is slowly dying in imprisonment, Martje loses contact with reality and starts imagining having a family with him.

2010 film by Mijke de Jong

A Good Life (With A Happy Ending) is about the unusual relationship between Helen, a widow who ends up in dire financial straits from one day to the next, and the student, Joeri (Jonas Smulders), who finances his wild and luxurious lifestyle by working as a gay escort.
One Night Stand series offers 'new', talented directors and screenwriters the chance to make a contemporary film of fifty minutes and so to take an important step in the development of their talent. The theme of this edition is 'Secret Love'. These films are broadcast on television and premiere at the Dutch Film Festival.