Verloren maandag

Summary

To Luc Monheim, who was known as an avant-garde painter and sculptor before going into film, the big city symbolises the breakdown of communication. It gave him a sense of nihilism and his focus is on people who have been rejected by society as ‘fringe cases’.

His film describes the search by Tomasz, a Polish refugee, for a young woman who once helped his mother to escape to the West. While roaming through Antwerp he gets to know all kinds of shady characters and is involved in a brief love affair with Linda.

Tomasz gets in with a gang of petty criminals and adapts himself to their way of life. When at last he finds the girl he is seeking, circumstances are such that there is no way out.