Jacob Derwig

An 11-year-old boy strives to break a centuries-old curse that makes every resident and visitor of a small island insufferable to be around.

Risking his family and future, a banker in occupied Amsterdam slows the Nazi war machine by creating an underground bank to fund the resistance.

1888: a luthier, Vedder, has to step aside when his home, opposite the recently completed Central Station in Amsterdam, must yield for the planned Victoria Hotel. His cousin Anijs, pharmacist in the Northern provinces of the Netherlands, has gotten into a fix after illegal medical practices, and is looking for a way out. For himself and his wife Martha, but also for a colony of poor peat cutters.

After being abandoned in the woods by their unemployed father, adult siblings Jacob and Marie end up going on an odyssey to a ghost town in Spain.