Back in his native Suriname to see his dying mother, an Afro-Surinamese student from the Netherlands’ former colony finds himself torn between his Amsterdam-based life with his white Dutch girlfriend and a future in his newly independent homeland when he falls for a local Hindostani nurse.

• Nederlands Fonds voor de Film
• Scorpio Films
• Borger Breeveld
• Diana Gangaram Panday
• Willeke van Ammelrooy
• Emanuel van Gonter
• Ro Jackson-Breeveld
• Sieuwpal Soekhlall
• Dick Scheffer
• Otto Sterman