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Govert Miereveld est un instituteur qui a une obsession malsaine pour Fran, une de ses élèves. Le jour de la remise des diplômes de Fran, Govert décide qu'il doit le lui dire.

This historical costume drama is a mini-series on the life of Flemish first-rate Baroque painter Pieter Pauwel Rubens (1577-1640), whose artistic success throughout Europe not only made him a fortune allowing him to stock his Antwerp residence ('Rubenshuis' in Dutch) and a castle at Elewijt, in the countryside nearer Brussels, with numerous fashionable treasures, but also became an ennobled diplomat for the Spanish Hapsburg rulers of the Southern Low Countries (now Belgium), who often traveled, for painting commissions and/or diplomatic missions, to and worked in Italy, France, Spain, all Catholic powers, as well as protestant England and the United Provinces (mainly Holland), also allowing him to meet other prominent contemporaries such as artists. It further covers his marriages to Isabella Brandt and Hélène Fourment.

Students meets members of the resistance who were locked up in Fort Breendonk an SS camp in Belgium, during WW II. Theys discuss the past, the present and the future.