Worn out by everyday routine, fifty-nine-year-old fishmonger Sabine decides to leave her fish shop and ventures into the world outside of her countryside village. Her quickest escape, the village school bus, brings her to the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent, where a museum audio guide helps her find the elevation she unknowingly sought.
De Kampioenen are about to celebrate their 25th anniversary and want their long-lost original trainer to join them. Meanwhile, an old enemy is released from prison and enters a quest for revenge.
The inhabitants of Bevergem can at least be called special. One day, stand-up comedian Freddy De Vadder also moves in. Why? Nobody knows. And he keeps quiet himself. The inhabitants of Bevergem are charmed by the presence of the eccentric rock 'n' roll figure, but it soon becomes clear that the villagers themselves are even more eccentric. Each of them confides in outsider Freddy and all kinds of petty bourgeois intrigues surface between noisy alpha males (and females) on the one hand and well-behaved, clumsy underdogs on the other. In the run-up to the annual village festivals, things get rather heated, but Freddy watches all the fuss and remains the unmoved mover at all times.
Sam wakes up, gets ready and goes to do his daily job. And then the unexpected happens. A bomb explodes in the center of the shopping mall where he works. He drags himself towards the entrance to save the victims. One by one he pulls them out, until something terrible takes place. In complete hysteria he runs off till he falls down from exhaustion. A woman's voice makes him raise his head. She's one of the victims he saved. She wants to know why the suicide bomber did it. This encounter projects him back in history and even in a surreal world. Thereafter he runs into everyone he saved and feels that their defeat shows many parallels with his own. Even his confrontation with the wrongdoer isn't that straightforward as he thought it would be and confronts him with the fact that guilt and innocence can be pretty much alike.
Mompelaar is a man who lives with his ever present and overbearing mother; he appears to be entirely introverted and have a speech impediment that sees him entirely incomprehensible. He heads out into the woods and finds himself at the place where several brutal murders appear to have occurred. He tidies up a bit and carries on, coming across a group out for a nature talk which descends quickly into horror and religion.
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