Arend Steenbergen

Somewhere in the near future, exists The Arena. Here men with an 'agression gene' with which they want to live no longer, are being admitted to fulfil their wish to die. Through fights to the death, televised by the commercial sportschannel, lives are being ended before one's time. Temmink, one of the gladiators, wins his first fight, finds a friend in a colleague and falls in love with one of the prostitutes. He becomes a national hero and loses his will to die. But, once admitted to the The Arena, there is no return...

Two passionate people, Marleen and Vince, embark on a scorching love affair. They are sucked down by the fierceness of their feelings and literally drown in them..

Don, a rich twelve-year-old, is kicked out of school. He is send to another school where he has difficulties fitting in.

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Eight-year-old Milan doesn't understand death. His friend Stella claims to know everything about death. She frightens Milan with stories about the soul thief, soulless people, and rotting wounds. Milan becomes so panicked that he no longer dares to trust anyone, not even his own mother. Eventually, Milan's mother finds out what he is struggling with.