Wan Pipel

In 1965, Pim & Wim, aka Pim de la Parra and Wim Verstappen, started Scorpio Films, a production company that was intended to give the then-meagre Dutch film industry a significant boost. In 1971, they scored a huge hit with the controversial Blue Movie. That hit gave them more financial leeway, enabling them to make Wan Pipel (One People) in 1976, the first film made in Suriname after independence in 1975. But production costs skyrocketed, leading to conflict and ultimately a rift between De la Parra and Verstappen.

Roy (Borger Breeveld), an Afro-Surinamese student in Amsterdam, is called back to Suriname by telegram because his mother is dying. Once there, he realises that he actually knows very little about Suriname and decides to quit his studies and stay in Paramaribo. Meanwhile, he has also started a relationship with a Hindustani girl, which is a very sensitive issue among the different population groups. Everything becomes even more complicated when his Dutch girlfriend Karina (Willeke van Ammelrooy) arrives in Paramaribo.