Helena De Keyser, a descendant from a family of gin distillers who lost her lover during the Second World War, anno 2008 asks her granddaughter Alessandra to investigate exactly what happened back then.
When her 80-year-old husband George dies, Helena asks her granddaughter to delve into the mystery surrounding George's friend Alfred's early demise. Alfred died in a WWII prison camp where both friends were imprisoned. The search for the truth unleashes an eruption of repressed emotions in three generations of the De Keyser family, gin distillers in Hasselt.—Anonymous