The Potato Eaters

Amsterdam in 1950 was a country moving out of the German occupation - a City bent on rooting out the collaborators of the war to mitigate some of the guilt of the past in the treatment of their Jews. Ruth is a refugee from Auschwitz having lost her family her home and almost her reason. But she is intelligent and when she befriends a youth from a tugboat who also suffers from mental illness there is a remarkable meeting of minds as both suffer from fear: one of the past and one of the future. The story tells of their road to rebuilding their lives finding happiness again among the bustling harbour but a place also where through her loyalty to her new friends Ruth becomes entangled with the traffic in Dutch collaborators fleeing the country.