Max Pam

A lawyer must defend a nightclub owner accused of committing a crime-of-passion.

Theo van Gogh yearned for love, attention and freedom. How do his family, colleagues, friends and enemies view the radical way in which he worked and lived? And, twenty years after the murder of Theo van Gogh, how do we relate to the discussions he sparked at the time?

Ten years after the death of legendary Dutch author W.F. Hermans, Max Pam goes on a search for the man behind the great polemicist through interviews and by visiting countries such as Norway and South Africa.