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A warmly amusing look at a bus-full of American tourists on a whirlwind tour of Europe. The eclectic soundtrack includes Mozart, Bob Dylan, Sandy Denny, Jonathan Richman, others.
The movie tells the story of two best friends, Florence (50) and Nina (30). Each one has an existential problem: Nina has doubts to become a mother in the current society, Florence is afraid of getting older. Both friends decide to "escape" Belgium and fly off to Portugal. They rent a campervan in Lisbon and head off direction the South along the beautiful region of Alentejo and the Costa Vicentina. A roadtrip begins, during which the two friends not only face each other, but mostly themselves.
A thirtysomething son struggles with his parents and with love.
Grocer De Feyter is put out of business by competition from a supermarket run by the Moroccan Saïd. To keep afloat, he does the dirty work for a right-wing politician. This man is in cahoots with a project developer who wants to build a furniture superstore in the slum area. With the aid of criminals, they manage to bring racial tension in the area to boiling point. Against this background, affection blossoms between the daughter of the grocer and the son of Saïd, a real Romeo and Juliet. Then a group of skinheads decides to put an end to the fragile romance with violence.
In a mining Belgian town, Sandrine and Anna, her mother, answer an ad for a local beauty contest that could change their lives forever. Anna is convinced that Sandrine should enter, although the path to victory will have huge costs for both of them.
On the day of his forced retirement, a grumpy school principal decides, together with his neighbour, to search for a wife on the Internet...
