Daniel

Summary

Erik Terpstra uses an amusingly distorted mirror to reflect the sexual revolution in his satirical comedy.

Twenty-year-old Daniel has been roaming around the world for a year when he comes home to find his extremely dull parents caught up in the times, in a sense. They are dressed in hip clothes and are busy making a mockery of sexual freedom. This strikes Daniel in such a wrong way that he escapes again, to the 'peaceful, unspoiled farm country'. But disillusionment awaits him there, too. Frustrations and sexual obsessions seem to be as bad there as in the big city. Even the strongly bigoted head of the farming family is powerless against such problems. When Daniel's parents show up to convince him to come back home, a confrontation unfolds which brings both sides closer together. The young man manages to drag himself away from all this exalted sex business. His biggest wish now is to be a tree. And then he becomes one.