Spring 1939, a Dutch parliamentary elections year. The pro-Nazi NSB supporters fight conservative Catholic farmers. Squire Jan isn't comfortable in his new role as NSB candidate, but his ambitious wife pushes him. An affair with Andton's maid gets farmer Bardoel's son Gijs evicted. After attending a lecture of his study lover Loes, Anton and she discover two grim secrets about retard Marieke in his retired predecessor's medical archive. Brenner is in trouble now the government insists on concrete, not steel for the bridge.