在阿姆斯特丹，警方发现了被残忍杀害的一家人的尸体，警方对此案一时之间毫无头绪。但是阿姆斯特丹动物园的兽医Lizzie通过伤口怀疑这应该是一只大型的狮子所为。但最初Lizzie的猜测并没有受到警方的重视，直到越来越多的受害者以相同的方式被杀害，毫无疑问阿姆斯特丹已经成为了一位捕食者的狩猎场。警方指派猎人Jack和Lizzie一起对行凶的狮子进行追捕，而Lizzie的男友，一位电视台记者也在跟踪报道此案，Lizzie除了追查狮子的下落还担忧着男友的安全，而此时的狮子已经饥饿难忍……

The Debut is van Brakel's first-length movies as a director, and it too takes up the theme of a child growing up in an adult world. Caroline is a 14-year old whose first love is 40-year old Hugo, a friend of her parent's who just returned from Africa with his wife. The spontaneous attraction the two feel for each other when they meet develops as they enter into a strange relationshop, the somewhat staid Hugo seeling to find some of his lost youth in the impulsive young girl enrhralled with the discovery of ther womanhood and the attention she receives from the devoted older man. In a kind of idyllic isolation they pursue their fragile liason, but the inevitable intrustions of friends, parents and Hugo's wife soon confronts their love with the reality of their ultimately separate worlds.
With the aid of fhe excellent cinematography of Theo van de Sande, Nouchka van Brakel builds up through close attention to detail a portrait of the sharp intelligence of a young woman coming into her own.