Eva

TV play for the VARA TV series Ouderen (Old People) about a ageing woman who embarks on a second youth after the death of her husband. The old woman falls in love with another inhabitant of the private home where she stayed on as a widow. She finds out that eroticism is the best vehicle for the human soul, even for the aged. Love makes her younger and more beautiful and fills her life with new meaning. But some of the other inhabitants try to throw a spanner in the works. The fact that the man in question is married to a senile woman in reason enough for them to condemn the relationship. The couple defy the venom and gossip and have a passionate relationship. Then the man dies. A violinplaying friend manages to lighten the sorrow of the inconsolable woman.