Maarten is happy, although repeating his school year with extra domestic chores, due to a photography prize and his Goth girl Romy, who entered the picture for him. Pregnant Nina is mean to Ruben, who only wants to be a real dad. Her own, still ignorant pa Bert announces his wedding plans, which implies divorcing her ma. Romy present Maarten to her hunky cousin, last year photography student Stijn, to suggest that major. Johan and Karen, who resumed nursing, focus on her sister Nathalie and her partner Koen's Bolivian development project, which gets all gift for her parents' 40th wedding anniversary. Karen even contemplates joining them for a year, which Maarten rejects. Ruben offers to leave Nina's life, ignoring she was just ready to let him back in.
—KGF Vissers